{"id":255286,"date":"2018-05-23T08:18:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T12:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=255286"},"modified":"2020-08-12T08:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T12:21:49","slug":"does-alcohol-after-a-meal-really-help-digestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/does-alcohol-after-a-meal-really-help-digestion\/","title":{"rendered":"Does alcohol after a meal really help digestion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Another French myth: there is no such thing as \u201cdigestives alcohols\u201d (digestifs en fran\u00e7ais) or aperitives alcohols. Alcohol, before, after, or during a meal does not help digestion. On the contrary, it makes it worse!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lekutat&#8217;s answer:<\/p>\n<p>Especially after fatty meals, alcohol is said to promote digestion. But it seems it&#8217;s not the alcohol that has a positive effect on the stomach. On the contrary: alcohol actually impedes gastric emptying. It blocks the action of nerves that are important for the transport of food in the abdomen. So high-proof alcoholic drinks are not beneficial to digestion. Herbal liqueur BEFORE a meal can be enjoyable. But here again, it&#8217;s not the alcohol but the bitter substances the drink contains that stimulate the mucous membranes of the stomach to release acid. That can actually facilitate the pre-digestion of foods. The bitter substances in non-alcoholic beverages such as espresso have a similar effect. The right time for this digestive aid is about half an hour BEFORE a meal. And after you eat, a postprandial walk is better than any drink.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/does-alcohol-after-a-meal-really-help-digestion\/a-18440111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/does-alcohol-after-a-meal-really-help-digestion\/a-18440111<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Another French myth: there is no such thing as \u201cdigestives alcohols\u201d (digestifs en fran\u00e7ais) or aperitives alcohols. Alcohol, before, after, or during a meal does not help digestion. On the contrary, it makes it worse! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":255287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}