Red Wine Benefits Linked to Better Gut Health, Study Finds

A new study from King's has found that people who drank red wine had an increased gut microbiota diversity (a sign of gut health) compared to nonred wine drinkers as well as an association with lower levels of obesity and 'bad' cholesterol.

A team of researchers from the Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology at King's explored the effect of beer, cider, red wine, white wine and spirits on the gut microbiome (GM) and subsequent health in a group of 916 UK female twins. They found that the GM of red wine drinkers was more diverse compared to non-red wine drinkers. This was not observed with white wine, beer or spirits consumption. This study shows that moderate red wine consumption is associated with greater diversity and a healthier gut microbiota that partly explain its long debated beneficial effects on health."