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Did you know... that the doctors who discovered the Roseto effect—that reducing stress reduces heart disease— did so over a beer?
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Could it be that the decline in longevity is not due solely to people moving out, forgetting the old ways, etc, but also to the washing away of the epigenetic inputs of the founders of the village? Think of the momentous event in the lives of all the people who made the move first. It is the late 18 hundreds and they pop out of a world of monotonous misery into an entirely new experience, language, culture, nature, etc. After crossing the ocean out of my little village - and breaking with centuries of habits - I would enjoy the move for the rest of my life, and totally seek stability, trust, predictability. Epigenetics could make that last a couple of generations, but not forever. -- unsigned comment by User:82.67.197.191 (talk) Oct 19, 2017
Several sources mention the beers, so I thought to include it. I reckon they mention the beer because it evokes the human nature of the doctors and paints an image of a casual conversation during which this observation was first made. The beers were mentioned in this page's DYK entry. -- ke4roh (talk) 14:05, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Bon courage (talk·contribs) nominated this article for deletion owing to WP:MEDRS. This discussion is to help sort out best to improve Wikipedia with respect to this article, be it by deleting or improving the article by any number of means.
I appreciate that some of the sources are not peer-reviewed, but others are, and the doctors studied the population. Perhaps follow-up studies are warranted (or have been done), but I can also imagine a double-blind experiment is not really possible or ethical, so we refer to natural experiments such as this one. That said, I'd like to hear more from Bon Courage about what's amiss. ke4roh (talk)
More fundamentally, has this got any attention is reliable sources (i.e. WP:MEDRS), or was it just a term floated in unreliable sources many years ago, which sank into obscurity rather than forming any part of the corpus of 'accepted knowledge' that Wikipedia is concerned with? Bon courage (talk) 07:50, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
