Andrew Huberman· PhD
0 is better than any and 2 drinks per week is the max (for adult non-alcoholics) beyond which some negative impact is observed.
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.
0 is better than any and 2 drinks per week is the max (for adult non-alcoholics) beyond which some negative impact is observed.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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But it is clear that, at least to me, based on the data that regardless of what people have read about red wine, that not drinking any alcohol is going to be healthier than drinking alcohol, and that the thresholds for alcohol ingestion before people start to negatively impact their health is about one or two per week.
despite extensive data that it can really disrupt Health even at three drinks per week
zero to two drinks per week is essentially the threshold Beyond which you start seeing health deficits in particular Cancers and metabolic disruption sleep disruption and increased anxiety
Um the cancer risk very clear the uh disruption to sleep which probably cascades into other things inflammation etc.
once you get past you know a drink per night which many many people are consuming then I think there's General agreement higher incidence of cancers especially in women higher incidence of cancers generally and a number of other things related to immune system disruption