Drinking Alcohol is Never Good for You? | Educational Video | Layne Norton PhD

A new study (PMID: 38289182) examined the effect of alcohol consumption on health & this study attempted to correct some of the issues with earlier studies. Many studies include ‘false abstainers’ which are people who do not currently drink alcohol, but used to drink a lot. In these studies, it’s common to see that light to moderate drinking appears to have a protective effect on health, but this may be because people who drink ‘no alcohol’ in these studies, many of them used to be heavy drinkers who now abstain & thus they may have underlying health issues from their previous drinking. This study attempted to isolate out TRUE abstainers from alcohol consumption as controls to compare to light/moderate/heavy drinking

The take home of this study was that low amounts of alcohol are not protective, but they also do not appear to be very detrimental either. When we say low, that was defined as between 1 drink per week & 2 drinks per day. Intakes of alcohol above this showed linear increases in mortality risk

The take home is we know alcohol is not great for you. At low intakes the risk is probably pretty small, but you probably should minimize drinking as much as possible if you’d like to reduce your risk of mortality

Study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38289...
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