Three glasses of CHAMPAGNE could prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease

It's thought champagne helps prevent the onset of dementia

IF YOU'RE a fan of the bubbly stuff you'll be pleased to hear there are certain health benefits.

Champagne might be expensive but there's an excuse to splash out on a bottle now.

Scientists claim three glasses of the bubbly beverage every week can boost the spatial memory - this is the part of memory responsible for recording information about one's environment. 

Helpful, right? It's thought this is all down to a compound found in the black grapes used to make a bottle of bubbly.

Introducing the Pinot noir and Pinot meunier hero grapes. These two 'super grapes' are said to prevent the onset of the brain diseases.

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The expense of champagne can now be thought of as a health benefit

  

There's a certain grape in the bubbles that helps with memory loss

So could it really be true drinking up to three glasses of champagne every week helps prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease?

Professor Jeremy Spencer conducted research at Reading University. Most of the experiments were conducted on rats. 

The Proff revealed:  "These exciting results illustrate for the first time that the moderate consumption of champagne has the potential to influence cognitive functioning, such as memory.  Such observations have previously been reported with red wine, through the actions of flavonoids contained within it. 

"However, our research shows that champagne, which lacks flavonoids, is also capable of influencing brain function through the actions of smaller phenolic compounds, previously thought to lack biological activity.

Professor Jeremy Spencer conducted research at Reading University into the drink

"We encourage a responsible approach to alcohol consumption, and our results suggest that a very low intake of one to two glasses a week can be effective.."

However, a spokesman for the Alzheimer's Society has since announced the experiment needs more research to be proven. 

We're sure they'll not be lacking in willing participants for the champagne challenge. 

It's yet to be discovered the effect of the champagne on one's liver.