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Can red wine help keep seniors on their feet?

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    Study: Chemical in alcoholic beverage may help prevent falls

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Alcohol has never been known for helping people stay on their feet really but researchers now say that red wine may help prevent elderly people from falling down.

They say that chemical found in red wine.

Two older lab mice and they gave this chemical -- older lab mice and the study found that the mice became more coordinated.

And -- nerve tissue resisted the effects of aging.

Of course that.

Studied look just that might not -- people but he could be promising -- are reaching retirement age according to the American.

Geriatric society one in three Americans over the age of 85 has won in three has trouble walking and staying balanced.

Joining us now doctor Arthur Caplan said of the division of medical ethics at NYU's -- on medical center.

Our third.

This doesn't adolescence.

I can hear the applause and every nursing home in the world right now you know so volume.

There is a chemical in red wine that probably does have an effect on the nervous system -- -- point I didn't in my case it was probably about 700 times the dose she get in a cynical thoughts of red wines that are going to be -- Going to be -- -- a back pretty hard but there's.

Something -- to the media idea of it.

Probably this chemical which you can also get a great use from blueberries or from other -- learn substances cheaper.

Little less likely to Dick you you may turn out to be useful I think people are gonna probably start look committed as a supplement.

-- to derive it from fruits.

Rather than pushing the red -- solution what is it.

It's reserve resulted -- and be.

Drug that we've seen or chemical if you will but we've seen that has an impact on the nervous system that would be alcohol.

It's get it in the fruit itself into what he can do is in hits the signal with the nervous transmitted.

Are still.

That those signals become weaker as you grow older so -- it's like it's like a booster for your cable.

Interviews every table I mentioned -- -- falls.

We were talking about this the other day Phyllis -- fell -- you know spiraled down quickly -- -- really trouble for older people so it is a serious subject.

One of the things you wanna be -- that in addition to and hopefully maybe someday.

Social turned out to be a pill that you could take you got to make your environment safe make sure you have -- Mets in that tub make sure you -- -- and railings for year old relatives.

I don't think we're going to be get the solution in this tomorrow but the falls real -- And in the mice stopped wobbling so much that we -- style you I think the waist and -- -- then again they were probably.

Too happy to tell us I got these doses what they really thought about the drug hopefully no tenants.

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