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Anonymous wrote:No amount of driving is safe. Are you going to give up your car?

Driving has risks, but also provides a tremendous benefit for a whole lot of people, the majority of the time.

What benefit does drinking regularly provide for a whole lot of people, the majority of the time?

DP. It brings people together! Gets them out of their houses, loosens them up a bit, makes them talk to each other, laugh together. Yes, it can go horribly wrong in large amounts or for addiction prone people. But a little bit can be just plain fun.

We have a loneliness epidemic and a screen addiction epidemic. Anything to get people out laughing together is ok with me!

Anonymous wrote:No amount of driving is safe. Are you going to give up your car?

Driving has risks, but also provides a tremendous benefit for a whole lot of people, the majority of the time.

What benefit does drinking regularly provide for a whole lot of people, the majority of the time?

Anonymous wrote:No amount of driving is safe. Are you going to give up your car?

Would love to actually

Americans drink a lot. Just an observation but you feel drink like whales

Anonymous wrote:New study: Life'll kill ya.

No one gets out alive.

I think soon we’ll see that the underlying cause for dementia and many other diseases come from inflammation, particularly sustained inflammation. Alcohol is a toxin, no question, and certainly causes inflammation. I found Andrew Huberman’s podcast on the topic very enlightening. I’ve been a problem drinker since my teens but drastically reduced my intake after listening. I’ll only drink one or two drinks a month at most now. Everything in my life has improved as a result. Everything.

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Anonymous wrote:I rarely drink but I just don’t get this. Italians Spaniards and the French all drink socially on a very regular basis. If this were true, they would have much higher rates of dementia. But they don’t seem to. Is it possible that people in the U.S. that drink regularly also tend to eat a diet that increases risk of dementia?

You would need to control for the population level frequency of the APOE4 gene to attempt to make a country by country comparison. Northern European countries generally have a higher population frequency of the APoE4 than southern European countries.

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Anonymous wrote:I rarely drink but I just don’t get this. Italians Spaniards and the French all drink socially on a very regular basis. If this were true, they would have much higher rates of dementia. But they don’t seem to. Is it possible that people in the U.S. that drink regularly also tend to eat a diet that increases risk of dementia?

You would need to control for the population level frequency of the APOE4 gene to attempt to make a country by country comparison. Northern European countries generally have a higher population frequency of the APoE4 than southern European countries.

No amount of driving is safe. Are you going to give up your car?