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To be honest, I've never head of health issues caused by alcohol beyond the possibility of your liver failing. So I suspect, if you stay within liver failure bo
by didibus 7y ago
To be honest, I've never head of health issues caused by alcohol beyond the possibility of your liver failing. So I suspect, if you stay within liver failure bounds, you're good to go in terms of health.
I'm ignoring here the fact that drinking more might cause a cascading effect of bad habits, like eating more, exercising less, sleeping less, etc. Here I assume that you'd drink, but not degenerate your other habits as a consequence.
- JackRabbitSlim 7y agoIt's pretty conclusively bad for brain health; alcoholics hands aren't shaking from weak liver function... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1471489204001924 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147148920...
- didibus 7y agoHad never heard of that before. Thanks for the link. So its probably that brain damage also only happens at levels that put the liver at risk, and maybe that's why this isn't observed in the OP study?
- overflow897 7y agoThere are studies that show even moderate alcohol usage can have a damaging effect. And any amount of alcohol has been shown to raise risk of cancer. https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2353 https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2353 The consensus is slowly moving towards there not being a healthy amount of alcohol consumption. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31571-X/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
- astura 7y agoBeyond liver failure excessive alcohol use causes throat and mouth cancer as well as pancreatitis at the very least.
- didibus 7y agoI see, had also never heard of this. I'd guess then that we're talking in the same level of excess that make you at risk of liver damage? And that might be why these don't seem to impact OP's study?