September is the month meaning the end of the summer holidays. The daily routine, the school, the traffic, it all comes back. Days become shorter as happy moments of leisure on the beach or the mountains are left behind. When returning home after holidays, many people suffer the so-called post-vacation blues. Actually, it is not a disease, but merely an adaptive process from a comfortable situation to a new one the individual rejects.

Fortunately we have wine to face these processes of adaptation with a better mood. And it is not a cliché: a study published in Nature magazine proves that red wine helps to boost the mood of people in the second and third age.

Again the reason is resveratrol, a phytoalexine with plenty of properties, such as anti-inflammatory and angiogenic effects. That is, this element, present in the grape skin, not only prevents coronary diseases, Alzheimer, some types of cancer, and even helps in fertility problems, but it also favours the adequate formation of the blood vessels, therefore improving the cerebral cortex plasticity. The study focused on the benefits the resveratrol has on the hippocampus, region of the cortex affecting memory, the learning process in adults and the mood.

The piece of research, where adult mice were used, shows that the treatment with resveratrol improves the functions of learning, memory and mood.

All in all, if you needed a scientific reason to drink a glass of wine a day, there you go: a moderate consumption of red wine boosts your mood, and therefore it helps to satisfactorily overcome the post-vacation blues.