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Posted On June 7, 2018
Let me just be the bearer of good news here. Wine is good for you (Lawyer-Induced Disclaimer: if you don’t overconsume it). We knew this already, but some of the same wine molecules that turn out to be great for your heart, are also beneficial to your skin.The thing in grapes and wine that are helping your skin, among many other things, are called proanthocyanidins. Blah blah blah with the letter-salad, the important thing is that these elements of wine are really good for your skin. Like you needed one more reason to have a glass with dinner!
Most of the research work has been done with supplementation actually, although there have been some subjects willing to drink wine for science. What a hardship, right?
Here’s what they found.
The proanthocyanidins protected the skin of lab animals from controlled exposure to UV radiation. Another advantage of them is that they also increased skin hydration. So in addition to providing significant photoprotection for melanocyte skin cells from the oxidative stress of UV exposure, they also help prevent the drying wrinkling sagging skin droop that happens with continual exposure to the sun.
So. We’ve covered lab animals and supplements. What about what we all really want to know? What about humans drinking wine?
Well, drinking red wine itself also provides the skin protection and “may impair the UV-induced erythema reaction as well as carcinogenesis and metastasis of melanoma and epithelial skin cancer.”
However, and I know how crazy this sounds, but when the scientists actually had their subjects soak in wine baths, it didn’t help their skin. All that time you spent. All that wine!
Keep in mind that the critical element to the protective effect of the wine has absolutely zero to do with the alcohol. None. And I know this sounds like just another Lawyer-Induced Disclaimer, but don’t drink wine because you think it will make you healthier. Drink it because you like it and can control consumption.
A happy correlate of that Cabernet is skin that can be healthier in the process.
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