Christmas cheer!! Drink protects your brain!

I am much cheered, writing this on Christmas Eve, to find that the University of Toronto has discovered that people with serious brain injuries were 24% more likely to recover from them if they have been drinking.



The University team reckon this is because the brain goes into shock after an injury and the calming effects of alcohol reduce that shock and the brains defence mechanism does not go into such dramatic overdrive - an overdrive which apparently may keep you alive but also causes a lot of cell destroying permanent damage.

This is marvellous news for us drinkers and completely vindicates our habit !



Of course what the survey does not say, as this is pure layman speculation and not medical science, is that your chances of getting a brain injury in the first place are probably considerably enhanced by being pissed out of your head and falling off the pub wall!

A Merry brain injury free Christmas to all readers of the blog!!