The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
you'll find again as you said some studies showing moderate alcohol consumption protecting against dementia and I'm just showing it not uh as I sort of tried to dig deeper what I was Finding was um it was protective and people that were not apoe4
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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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not all studies support a lower threshold for the negative effects of alcohol on dementia risk such as one meta analysis published in 2017 which actually found a protective effect of alcohol consumption up to 14 drinks per week among apoe4 carriers while protection was only observe up to seven drinks per week among non-carriers