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What I never got is the studies are about alcohol consumption but the people in the studies never drink pure alcohol but instead wine/beer/whiskey/you name it.
by stinos 11y ago
What I never got is the studies are about alcohol consumption but the people in the studies never drink pure alcohol but instead wine/beer/whiskey/you name it. Isn't there a chance that it isn't the alcohol which provides some of the effects but rather something else in the beverage of choice? Take wine for instance, what would be the effects of drinking 2 glasses of some kind of grape/fruit-derived drink every day vs not drinking it?
- mmastrac 11y agoThere was some thinking that Resveratrol in wine had positive effects but the studies are inconclusive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resveratrol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resveratrol
- bpchaps 11y agoI could see that. There are tons of different kinds of yeasts used in brewing which all create very different byproducts during/post fermentation. Pure alcohol would have very little, if any of those.
- thomyorkie 11y agoOften studies like this break down alcohol consumption by type. Here is a review of several studies that concludes that "a substantial portion of the benefit is from alcohol rather than other components of each type of drink" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8605457 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8605457
- nextweek2 11y agoA very slim chance, alcohol is the common ingredient to all of those drinks. Alcohol is a muscle relaxant and lowers inhibitions, these qualities make it ideal for stress relief. Which is why it is so popular. Pure alcohol is toxic, so studying its effects is kind of hard.
- spdionis 11y agoActually it's easy but the results are pretty obvious...