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by zucked 1013 days ago
Perfect example of the whiplash one can get paying too much attention to these kinds of studies. Last month it was that any alcohol is bad, this month it's good for my gut biome.

Personally, my sleep is too dramatically impacted from beer to make it a regular part of my week. Kefir, yogurt and veg seems equally as impactful and they don't make me feel suboptimal the next morning.

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More if you are not paying enough attention. This article is not about alcohol being good. It is about beer being good, and even goes on to suggest non-alcoholic beers potentially being a health boost, leaving unstated that we know the alcohol has harmful effects (because this is a feel-good article, not a study). When studies appear to disagree is when we learn the most, such as coffee studies disagreeing pointing us to the differences between filtered and unfiltered coffee or caffeinated and decaffinated, or how 'healthy' oils can become unhealthy when heated past their smoke point in high temperature cooking.