Heavy alcohol consumption gives brain dose of extra energy, study finds (3/13/13)

A new study claims that drinking heavily will actually boost your energy, which will probably come as a surprise to you if you ended up passed out at any given night.

In addition, the study's findings don't suggest that alcohol itself will energize you, just that drinking more over a long period of time might give you an extra energy source to tap into when you're drained, so maybe don't start replacing your coffee with Jim Beam quite yet. Up next for science? Researchers say they plan to see if substituting alcohol with acetate could help alcoholics kick their addiction

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