My newest piece in the guardian looking at moderate drinking and why it's probably bad for your healthhttps://twitter.com/Cif_Australia/status/1125236681194369024 …
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TL:DR there are epidemiological studies showing an association between moderate drinking and good health, but few plausible reasons that this might be and good evidence that the link disappears when confounders are properly controlled for
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Replying to @GidMK
Hormesis hypothesis is always a fun read. Mechanism wise it's so hard to tease apart
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Yeh it's really complex. There's some RCT evidence that it has minor cardiovascular benefits, but there's no lower limit to the harms identified for other organ damage
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This study in NZ is one of my faves, looks at what happens when you minimally adjust for SES vs comprehensive adjustment https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/73/4/649/2645642#115521450 …
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