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Average body mass would be my guess.
So we could tease this out by taking 90-110kg men and comparing to 90-110kg women?
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Given that yeast leavened bread is around 1.5% alcohol and food can naturally ferment in your gut, it’s nearly certain that there is in fact some safe amount of regular alcohol intake that’s well within the bounds of homeostasis and thus as safe as anything can be. But that’s not how people drink is it? People use alcohol to intentionally disrupt homeostasis. It’s certainly plausible that there is no safe regularly t…
All alcohol has carcinogenic properties. That's just a simple fact. Cancer is bad. Anything that increases our chances of cancer is bad. And considering alcohol has no beneficial qualities when consumed, it's technically all downside. So while bread may have some alcoholic content, it has other beneficial properties. As does the sun, even though it is a huge carcinogen. However, I do like to remind people, that while…
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Yes, this is interesting research. If I was going to drink again, it would be limited to red wine and beer (which contains other beneficial compounds). Personally I just take pterostilbene, which is structurally similar to resveratrol and has similar health benefits but is much more bioavailable. Cognitive decline and dementia are multifactorial, and with alcohol consumption there are trade-offs between neuronal deat…
May I suggest that, if you have't already, you get a 23andme. "While light alcohol consumption has been associated with a decreased risk of AD in general [127], this relationship does not appear to hold in ApoE4 carriers. Consumption of any amount of alcohol may increase the risk of AD[Alzheimer's disease] for ApoE4 carriers [128,129,130]. In one study, both light and moderate alcohol consumption were associated with…
As it turns out, I do have one T, so I have another really good reason to avoid alcohol entirely - and also to take krill oil, quercetin, resveratrol/pterostilbene, D3, K2, the Bs, and lithium (the recommendations from the study you linked).
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In this comment? Or you are in a state of high aclohol consumption?
Not at the time. But frequently.
I heard good comments about Nalmefene or Naltrexone "as needed" (aka Sinclair Method). Even here on HN if you search for it in comments. Basically, you take a pill an hour before drinking. They suppose it works by blocking formation of conditioned reflex caused by endorphin reinforcement. In absence of reinforcement patient unlearns the habit.
Psychotherapy. In particular, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). I think one can provably even study this method himself and apply it.
Group therapy. May be useful IMHO, because people with the same problem can share experience.
Medications to help maintaining abstinence: acamprosate, disulfiram, nalmefene / naltrexone (taken constantly, unlike the Sinclair Method, where they are only taken when drinking).
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. Just curious about this topic.
A useful link: https://alcoholtreatment.niaaa.nih.gov/
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FWIW this policy change has been widely criticized by Canadians for being based on a flawed analysis https://nationalpost.com/opinion/harry-rakowski-how-much-alc...
Haha - good old national post. They also said smoking is good for surviving Covid. I will seek my health info elsewhere. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-where-theres-smo...