92. Loss of hearing is no laughing matter, and it can occur from either age-related decline or acoustic trauma (loud noise.) A few years ago, a group or researchers decide to see if resveratrol could play a role. Ealry indications were that becaue oxidative damage contributes to hearing loss, antioxidants such as resveratrol could be helpful. However, a more direct way to test it is with noise-induced hearing loss. A group of rats (hard rock fans, no doubt) were recruited to test whether resveratrol could prevent hearing loss induced by standardized noise exposure. It turns out that indeed it does, as if we are surprised.
It seems that the more studies we see on the relationship
between wine and health, and the larger they are, the more contradictory the
results. Headlines summarizing comprehensive international studies declare the
French paradox dead, and all alcoholic beverages are equally detrimental. I
think there is an overlooked explanation for this: over the past several
decades, convergence of drinking patterns around the world has separated wine
from its role as a daily part of a meal. Globalization has commoditized our
views about drink, toppling it from its role as a culturally specific emblem.
Global convergence of drinking
There are several recent reports summarizing the trend,[i],[ii],[iii]and it applies for both developed and developing countries. Since the early
1960s, wine’s share of global alcohol consumption has more than halved,
declining from 35% to 15%. Beer and spirits have taken up the slack, with beer
gaining 42% and spirits adding 43%, both large gains. The bigger story howeve…
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