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Drinking Wine Improves Your Brain Power, According To Yale Professor
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Don’t do math. Drink wine. It’s better for the brain. At least, that’s what a new book from a Yale professor suggests.
Booze kills your brain cells. Right? Well, not necessarily. At least not when it comes to wine.
That’s the result of research presented by Doctor Gordon Shepherd of the Yale School of Medicine in his new book Neuroenology: How The Brain Creates The Taste of Wine.
You can't make anyone shut up, but you can drink a bottle of wine and forget everything they said— Gloria Fallon (@GloriaFallon123) March 17, 2015
According to Shepherd, sniffing and analysing a wine before drinking requires an enormous amount of control over the tongue’s intricate muscles and the utilisation of thousands of taste and odour receptors. He reckons it makes our brains work harder than any other human activity, including listening to music and solving math problems.
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So why all this work? Well, it’s because there’s no taste in wine. Cool story, Gordon. “The taste is not in the wine; the taste is created by the brain of the wine taster,” Shepherd writes.
Basically, taste is a lot more subjective than previously thought and we should be paying more attention to the drinker rather than the wine itself. Every single person brings his or her own experiences to the process of tasting, their own memories and emotions — all of which affects the experience of drinking the wine.
Shepherd even reckons that spitting out the wine has an effect; to truly taste a wine, you need to swallow all the way down the hatch.
It’s interesting stuff, but then it gels with what we know about taste and our olfactory sense in particular, in terms of their capacity to trigger memory. The olfactory bulb is closely connected to amygdala and hippocampus brain regions that handle memory and emotion, hence certain odors’ capacity to tap into deepest recesses of our minds.
After dozens of rewrites, all tales of Jesus' brother Carl were lost from the Bible. Carl could turn wine into water. No one liked Carl.— Reverend Scott (@Reverend_Scott) April 5, 2015
Still, don’t drink too much. If so, Shepherd says, you’ll saturate your system, and there’ll be no exercising of the grey matter for you.
Plus, you’ll get shitfaced.
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