Ever had that feeling, where you’re not feeling great. You feel run down from a long day or long week at work. You get that thought ” I need a drink!” Well science now proves a drink can make you feel better!

A study conducted by Oregon National Primate Research Center ()approved by Oregon Health & Science University has shown moderate drinking can help boost the immune systems response to fighting off illness.  Not to say the solely drinking alcohol will cure the problem, but I will ashore you, you will feel better.  If you think about it most over the counter cold and flu medicine have alcohol in them.  Yes, I know, now some are available without alcohol, but for years that was the go to ,to make you feel better.

In the study scientist took a group of rhesus macaques and vaccinated the monkeys with small pox. The monkeys were separated into two groups. One group was given alcohol the other was sugar-water. I think the alcohol was tequila, maybe whiskey, you know what group I want to be in! But I digress. The groups were monitored for 14 months and then vaccinated again at 7 months. Studies shown that the group which consumed alcohol had a better response than the group with the sugar-water.  Naturally too much alcohol consumption had a negative effect.

Well that proves it, alcohol will help you feel better and help you get over your cold faster.

Back to the grind. As always Workout drink be merry

(study by: http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/news_events/news/2013/12-17-study-moderate-alcohol.cfm)