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Is red wine good for you? One more scientific article proves yes.
Yup, in moderation:
“Red wine increased pleasure and arousal, decreased the awareness of time, slowed the subjective passage of time, increased the attentional focus on the present moment, decreased body awareness, slowed thought speed, turned imagination more vivid, and made the environment become more fascinating,” the researchers found. “Red wine increased insightfulness and originality of thoughts, increased sensations of oneness with the environment, spiritual feelings, all-encompassing love, and profound peace. All changes in consciousness occurred regardless of volunteers drinking alone, in dyad or in group.”
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“ Red wine increased arousal. Ethanol is commonly seen as a sedative substance largely because of its action on the GABAergic system, but ethanol also causes dopamine release in the brain [50], which makes it act to some extent as a stimulant, especially at moderate doses. Additionally, the ethanol present in red wine can increase heart rate [50,51] and muscle sympathetic nerve activity [52], which may contribute to the subjective feeling of arousal. The increases in heart rate correlated with increases in central dopaminergic activity [50]. Such activation of the dopaminergic neurons is consistent with the documented effects of a moderate dose of alcohol on the reward system by which incentive salience is increased [53,54].”
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