Benefits of Red Wine to the Health, Skin and Hair

Red wine is a kind of wine made from dark color grape varieties. The actual color of the wine can range from intense violet typical of young wine, through to brick red for mature wine and brown for old wines.

Be it social gathering or celebration of any kind, red wine has over time being an integral part of merry making. It is usually

associated with joy, love and bonding. However despite being known for its unique taste and flavor, red wine unknown to many also contains various properties that makes it a health drink. In fact in ancient times red wine was known for its various medical values.

Here are some of the benefits on your Health:

1.       Protects the Heart:  red wine contains antioxidant that helps prevent the accumulation of fat in the arteries which in turn prevents heart stroke and heart attack. This is one of the major benefits of red wine to the body.

2.       Peaceful sleep:  Melatonin is an ingredient which is largely found in red wind. Melatonin helps to control your body clock, thereby keeping you healthy. So, when you consume a moderate amount of red wine say 50-100ml before bed time, it ensures you a sound and peaceful sleep.

3.       Lowers cholesterol:  the French people have been known to be the largest consumers of red wine, as they make it part of their diet. They also consume cheese and other food that has high saturated fat, the reason for this is that red wine can reduce drastically the cholesterol level in the body and there by creates a balance.

4.       Prevents cold:  red wine could be our best friend when your nose is blocked and head feels heavy with cold, just sip some red wine and your cold will subside instantly.

5.       For strong teeth:  Red wine contains polyphenol that helps strengthen the gum and helps prevents gum inflammation, it can also helps prevent teeth decaying by harden the enamel.

Here are some of the benefits of Red wine on your Skin:

1.       It prevents aging:  studies have shown that Red wine due to its high level of several antioxidants, it could prevent the aging of our skin. These antioxidants include tannins flavonoids and resvertrol which are excellent for healthy skin.

2.       Can be used as Facial massage: There are various saloon and spa that uses Red wine in their facial massage. Resulting in the glow that it brings to the face. One just has to add some few drops to the regular face pack at home.

3.       It’s also one of the best exfoliates for the body:  you can make your body scrub using Red wine; all you need is to mix together some pulp of pip and the skin of grapes then crush to a fine paste. To this mixture add some red wine and then add this soothing mixture all over your body as a scrub. This mixture will help in removing all the dead cells from the face and body and thus, exfoliate the whole body. Moreover it also helps in the circulation of blood all over the body.

4.       It helps repair damages caused to the skin: Red wine can be used to protect the body against the harmful ray of sunlight. Red wine has a high amount of amino acids and this helps in the renewal of skin. There are antioxidants in the red wine that act as barriers on your skin and thus can prevent damages that might be caused by harmful sunrays.

Here are some benefits of red win on the hair:

1.       Red wine cures Dandruff: According to experts, if you drink a little every day, it will increase circulation of blood in your scalp and thus cure itchiness that you have.

2.       It prevents hair fall: Red wine contains a huge amount of resveratrol, a chemical that can help reduce or prevent hair loss. Red wine even prevents the immature death of cell on your scalp and will also stop inflammation. Also, applying red wine to the root of your hair will make it grow by leap and bounds.

Although Red wine has a lot of benefit to the whole body, there are still some adverse effects to the intake of Red wine, these are:

1.       Pregnancy: Drinking of Red wine during pregnancy can cause a number of birth defect, ranging from mild to severe. Alcohol is quickly transferred from mother to baby through the blood stream.

2.       Migraine: Red wine might trigger off Migraine headache in some sufferers.

3.       Liver: prolong use of large amount of alcohol in the system, can contribute to the buildup of toxins and other harmful materials in the liver.

4.       Interaction with medication: Alcohol may interact harmfully with a lot of drugs. Alcohol is a downer that reduces activities of the central nerves system. High amount of alcohol can turn into intoxication and hangover.

5.       Dehydration: Alcohol is a dehydrating Agent. Low amount of alcohol can have adversely affect attention and motor skill. In fact many serious accidents are alcohol related.