[objektif]

I am very skeptical about these side effect claims. Do you have hard data supporting this or doctor hearsay. Years ago I remember watching Charlie Rose Brain series where one of the professors said something like “ we know of two drugs that we are certain are very safe for human beings: alcohol and aspirin.”

[voisin]

> “ we know of two drugs that we are certain are very safe for human beings: alcohol and aspirin.”

I am not sure I understand. We know alcohol isn’t safe, let alone very safe, in any quantity. So immediately this seems contradictory?

[ergonaught]

That appears to have been the point.

[pinko]

Anecdata: even a few days of low-dose aspirin causes me terrible GI pain and exacerbates an otherwise 30-year dormant ulcer. I would love to be able to take it, but I can't tolerate it at all.

[Turing_Machine]

Have you tried the "enteric coated" aspirin? The coating is supposed to resist dissolving until the pill is well past your stomach.

[throwaway290]

What was your dosage? Tried dissolving in water?

[nomel]

Aspirin's bleeding risk is very well studied. You can find many papers showing between around 30% increase in the brain, and around 60% for the gut.

[mvkel]

Alcohol has a bunch of recent studies showing that no amount is good, and as little as two drinks per week yield measurable negative impacts.

[Scoundreller]

what if I do all the other things that go along with drinking for health, like speak Italian or French while I drink?

[robocat]

First search hit:

  They report preventable deaths caused by alcohol is higher in France than anywhere else in Europe.

Speaking French doesn't appear to help you. Maybe Italian is better.

[mk67]

Sounds like bs if you look at Russian numbers.

[Scoundreller]

meh, I just care about all-cause mortality. I'll accept some preventable death risk if it's outweighed by non-preventable death risk improvement.

I think the French hit a good sweet spot between high alcohol consumption and high life expectancy. Quite a male-female disparity though. Maybe Irish do better at 0.2years reduction for an extra 0.4l of alcohol per year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_c...

[_yb2s]

Those are both drugs with very significant risks