Andrew Huberman· PhD
The data now showing it greatly increases breast cancer risk, however.
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The data now showing it greatly increases breast cancer risk, however.
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In fact, there has been proposed to be a anywhere from 4 to 13% increase in risk of breast cancer for every 10 grams of alcohol consumed.
there are studies with women who are doing moderate drinking which I mean depending on the study you read it's like I mean for women moderate drinking is like it's like you know three drinks a day or something like it's a lot wow um and like that incr like that literally like translates to a lifetime risk of breast cancer it's like one in six or something like that where it's pretty significant
because two or five years down the road when you ask them to give it up because there's a new breast cancer diagnosis the risk of breast cancer is higher than the than the risk of liver disease for most women who are consuming alcohol
because two or five years down the road when you ask them to give it up because there's a new breast cancer diagnosis the risk of breast cancer is higher than the than the risk of liver disease for most women who are consuming alcohol
That means moderate alcohol increases that lifetime risk to 1 in 6!
There’s no safe threshold. It’s a dose-response relationship - the more you drink, the higher the risk.
Alcohol is a known cause of female breast cancer.
Just one drink a day raises a woman’s lifetime risk by about 4%, and the risk climbs with each additional drink.
for cancers with relatively High lifetime risks like breast cancer in women even a small increase in Risk can be significant
with that said very light drinking defined as less than half of a standard drink per day or less than around five standard drinks per week increases the risk of breast cancer by around 4%
for breast cancer in women where the average lifetime risk is one in8 there's probably no safe level of alcohol consumption because the Baseline risk of this cancer is so high and any increase carries significance especially if you're genetically predisposed to breast cancer