[sprite]

Moderate drinking is good for you?

[radicaldreamer]

Simply not true, no amount of alcohol is good for you.

See: https://podcastnotes.org/huberman-lab/episode-86-what-alcoho...

Not saying everyone should be sober 100% all the time (I drink occasionally myself), but there are much safer and more fun alternatives (med dose psilocybin etc.)

[basil-rash]

Those living in "blue zones" would disagree, and they live longer than anyone.

https://www.wellandgood.com/alcohol-in-blue-zones/

[daseiner1]

Other than a single line asserting reduced cortisol levels, that article provides no evidence for causation over correlation.

[basil-rash]

It certainly shows alcohol isn’t the limiting factor. Anyone could change any number of things to be as healthy as those folks, but for whatever reason academics instead insist alcohol is the problem.

If the best software engineers in the role all consistently use rubber duck debugging, it may not be the case that rubber duck debugging is what makes them the best software engineers in the world, but it’d take a whole lot more evidence than some academic on a podcast saying “rubber duck debugging is harmful to software engineers” to convince me it isn’t at least worth a shot.

[radicaldreamer]

That's because there is a lot of evidence that alcohol is bad for you.

I don't know who is saying it's "THE" problem, but it definitely isn't A solution.

[m2mdas2]

Then surely millions people in east asian countries like Japan or Korea sitting at top of highest life expectency table having drinking rooted in their culture are anamoly.

Edit: Billions if you add China to that list.

[Euphorbium]

Cops can murder you without any consequences for having psilocybin though.

[account-5]

I was wondering that but I'm not sure if this has something to do with gut microbes which moderate drinking benefits due to the fermentation process. I think eating fermented food is really good for you. Could be wrong.