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The guidelines are probably wrong. All recent scientific data I see shows that, like most poisons, the best amount to intake is zero.

Here’s one for brain health.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.10.21256931v...



"The dose makes the poison" - Paracelsus

I'm sure drinking has some effect on you, but I'm not sure one non-peer reviewed which by their own papers shows <18 drinks / week shows baseline within the uncertainty band is evidence of any noticeable mental decline. In fact several of the graphs, it shows an increase in matter volume for low non-zero amounts vs zero.




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