Is 1-2 Alcoholic Drinks a Week Good For You? | Dr. Daniel Amen 

21,480 days sober. I’m 58. 👌🏼

Watching this while drinking alcohol

I sent this to my boyfriend a alcoholic whom refuses to listen to me drinking daily and showing signs of mental illness problems and memory loss and sleep apnea snoring every night we are not sleeping together for 10 years and his brain has shrunk so bad he can't process things or retain info depending on myself to do everything myself around the home. Routine is so important and change brings on anxiety disorders and anger issues is huge wanting to fight and argue about everything. Always thinking about money it is a obsession. Entire family of drinking functional alcoholicizum in his family but in his mind that is normal. Denial is huge because no one including police refuse to take it seriously allowing him to abuse his partner asking him if he wants to have his partner removed from the home just horrible police in Canada.

As a tight-roper (balance and dance on a tightrope), I confirm that there is an effect after only a few of alcohol. If I take a small glass of beer, it's enough to change my balance capacities. I don't feel the effect on the ground, normal life, but if I go up on the rope, I can still walk, but my body needs much more movement to find balance, and high-level exercises are very unsure. (I did it some rare times... if I can do this with alcohol, that means, I master this figure 😁). Of course, this feeling doesn't mean that damages the brain, but at least, if we lose thin coordination abilities, just a bit of alcohol is not nothing.

I’ve been sober for a week. Proud!

Where is the mistake here, he said a day but the title says a week.

Thank you Doctor you explain in a way that makes perfect sense. You are a Hero

It's a tradeoff, because if you don't drink at all your social life atrophies and your anxiety and stress levels increase dramatically in the long term, like after a year or more of not drinking, which is also very bad for overall health. The anxiety reduction affects of alcohol in social integration need to be weighed.

Probably not, especially if you have a saddening or stressful life. The allowances of vices are causing people to dangerously underestimate the mind-gut connection and how depressive symptoms or poor brain conditions and synthetic substances with lethal consequences don’t go together.

my uncle is 105 an drinks 1 drink of scotch everyday

I also read that we are not equal genetically regarding "alcohol digestion". So one glass of beer per week for a strong young polish guy, would it really be a problem? I mean, could we compare ? Because, I am not sure that to look at videos is very healthy for the brain. Wa can just compensate by looking good videos : Damage - 1, but long term benefits + 9. My ancestors survived... thanks to the wine, because the water was extremely bad in my region. I don't say they had a good brain, they just survived enough to have children. But for sure this belief comes from that time.

Would have been good to learn about the resilence of it....

I don’t drink at all. I tried it but was not good for my.

Any studies on how anesthesia affects the brain?

But... alcohol is a good cleaner. I mean, so many people are so sure that vodka is the best medicine, at least... could it be a good placebo ? I use to say that : I don't need alcohol, or any drugs, I am naturally drunk and high. (Now I understand why : ADD diagnosis in process).

as an ADD person, sometimes (like, one time all 2 months), I take a little beer. That's the only way I know for me to sit and.... do the paperwork. risk- benefit ok. Anyway, I am sure that paperwork hardly damages my brain. 🤕🤣🤣🤣

It probably is. 1-2 a day won't even damage you on the long term. Yet it makes a difference if it's one or two glasses a day and being able to leave it too or if its 1-2 bottles a day and you can't go without it. Moderate use of alcohol can help relax from daily stress and alcohol is a blood cleanser and anti inflammatory. This should not mean you have to promote alcohol use, actually you better say; not recommended at all. But there's more to it. There's lots of examples of people for example living a European mediterrane lifestyle with good food ánd some daily alcohol that reached the oldest aged on earth. I have a grandma, aged 95 now, she'd like to drink a low alcoholic beer a day, or a brandy before sleep. I bet it's healthier than taking any pharmaceutical crap that has poisoned our brains the past decades. People used to start drinking alcohol because of lack of clean water.... We still have lack of clear water with all the poison and plastic that gets in there and can't get filtered out "the water quality in this area is currently bad due to a chemical factory dumping in it; but it's not a treat for public health; YEAH RIGHT, I'll have a glass of beer after every glass of water then.

Try three a day and I’m thriving

How about microdosing for its HORMETIC effect ?

But yet many states are legalizing marijuana. A little bourbon a few days a week is great for mental health unless you have a weak and addictive nature. Self-control is the key.

No, there is no health benefits in alkohol

More like one or two per day, sometimes more. Depends on activities. Healthy for me. I'm mainly speaking of beer, not more than about 5% alc. Wine less often,… drunken from shot glasses, keep it precious. Liquor not more than a teaspoon or two, infrequently. Don't over consume. Prudent consumption. Understand the J curve. Quality beer, in moderation, is quality food,…. only consumed when prudently desired.

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Lesson of the day Alcohol is not good anymore At the end of the day it will kill your liver 😂

Japanese who drink beer every weekend and average life span is 88yeara?

I would imagine the beautiful actors in alcohol advertisement drink the least.

What about a little beer or wine? What about a little beer or wine with ADHD meds?

I don't need to be a doctor, to know that alcohol only damages brain functions if it's drank excessively. Alcohol is not a killer or a poison. It requires moderation, just like everything else

After watching this I wanted to put quarters in my pockets and drink cool-aid.

Ok I'll ignore 10.000 years and believe you 😂😂😂😂

That’s bad because alcohol is really bad for you