https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/researchers-hone-in-on-headache-causing-compounds-in-red-wine/With this research established, there is no more room to blame the headaches on sulphur or histamines.
Now that we know the cause, you can know which wines to avoid, if you're among the 1 in 3 wine drinkers that suffer from the headaches.
sulphur can dampen vibrancy of a wine. It can neuter it, if you will.
However,
Sulphur is like chlorine in a pool: as little as possible, as much as necessary.
Now the natty wine movement falls apart, like the house of cards it is.
by Whereisdannymo
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….sulphur is literally the last on the list of reasons why I prefer natural wines.
House of cards lol going on 50 yrs but ok
You didn’t read the article mate. Nowhere in it does the author state, or prove, that quercetin is the definitive cause of red wine headaches.
No bro, it’s definitely the sulphites in the wine causing my headache and not the fact that I drank two bottles of Napa Cab on an empty stomach!
Bruh it’s the fkn alcohol
Evidence is relatively weak in vitro study, but its possible.
[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-46203-y](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-46203-y)
TLDR for the article?
Never had a headache from red wine, maybe I’m not drinking enough 😂
Trying to decipher this post did the (headache) job well enough for me. And it is “home in,” not “hone in.”
Quercetin glucuronide!! I knew it this whole time!
It may be the glass of whiskey I had after I finished the wine bottle.
From the article – at the end:
“The next step could be to give human subjects two red wines that are low and high in quercetin and ask whether either wine causes a headache. If the high-quercetin wine induces more headaches, we’d know we’re on the right track.”
The headline is the problem. Not the article. It fully admits its limitations.
Nah, “Natural wine” was never really about this anyway.
I look forward to the day I am no longer offered kombucha wine ever again.