Ties Cut Off Blood Flow To The Brain, Study Finds

Trending News: How Wearing A Tie Might Be Bad For Your Brain

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Keep it casual from now on.

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Wearing a suit and tie to work used to be the way to show you've got your sh*t together. Nowadays, wearing a suit to work might make you look uptight.

Business casual is the way of the present and here's more evidence why you should burn those ties. 

A new study published in the journal Neuroradiology found that wearing a tie might reduce blood flow to the brain. Researchers figured this out by scanning the brains of 30 healthy young men, half of which wore comfy open-collared shirts and the other half wore Windsor-knotted ties just a tad too tight, according to New York Post. (Here's how to tie a tie the right way).

The study found that guys wearing ties had 7.5% less blood flow to their brain.

What does that mean? Not good things. Insufficient blood flow could eventually cause a stroke, but only in extreme cases. 

Scared of wearing a tie now? Can't blame you. Here are some versatile dress shirts to wear and if you really want to dial it down, here are 9 sneakers that'll work at the gym or at the office. 

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Ilaria Urbanati, a stylist for The Rock, Donald Glover and Ryan Reynolds, recently revealed that she's anti-tie