Andrew Huberman· PhD
Any cardiac benefit is offset by cancer risk.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
Any cardiac benefit is offset by cancer risk.
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There might be some cardiac benefit, okay? But, you know, we don't we don't get to, you know, live our lives as single organs. We have a whole body. You have to weigh that if that is true. And it is wobbly. If that's true, it's smaller than the cancer risk. So your net is you're not going to get any mortality gain from mortality reduction from drinking alcohol.
He explains that any heart benefits that exist from alcohol are greatly offset by the increased cancer and other risks of alcohol.