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# Friday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/46691/
- Published: 2018-08-03T06:26:10.000Z
- Updated: 2018-08-03T06:26:10.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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Brews You Can Use

This might be the feel-good piece of the young month: [One drink a day might be enough to stop dementia by flushing the brain](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23931893-400-one-drink-a-day-might-be-enough-to-stop-dementia-by-flushing-the-brain/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

You have to pay to subscribe to read the entire article, so I searched for similar pieces. This article appears to "flush out" the same information: [Does Alcohol Really 'Clean' the Brain?](https://www.livescience.com/61659-does-alcohol-clean-brain.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) It has quite a bit of egghead science in it, but it basically boils down to the same old story: Moderate alcohol is good for you; excess alcohol is bad for you.

Which, of course, is something any desert monk at Scetis in the fifth century could've told you.

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My reference to Scetis prompted me to Google it. I was surprised to learn that those monasteries are apparently still in use: "Scetis, now called Wadi El Natrun, is best known today because its ancient monasteries remain in use, unlike Nitria and Kellia which have only archaeological remains." [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi%5FEl%5FNatrun?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).