The widespread claims in the nutrition and longevity spaces that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption are total nonsense.
For the written version, with somewhat more technical detail and links to all the references, see https://chrismasterjohnphd.substack.c...
00:00 Overview
01:06 Why Alcohol Is a Macronutrient
02:17 Why Alcohol Is Not Uniquely Toxic Among the Macronutrients
03:27 Alcohol and Hormesis
06:11 There IS a Safe Amount of Alcohol for the Brain
06:39 Mendelian Randomization Nonsense
07:41 Low-Level Alcohol Is Associated With Longer Life
08:47 What's the Optimal Dose of Alcohol?
14:35 How Much Should You Drink in One Session?
16:45 Why Is the Optimal Dose Different for Different People?
17:05 There are Hundreds of Metabolic Impairments that Generate Neruotoxins and Cardiotoxins From Protein and Fat
For a primer on hormesis, see this lesson of mine:
https://chrismasterjohnphd.substack.c...
For more on individual variation in metabolism of normal food, see How I Found My Health “Super Unlock” After 20 Years of Research and 20,000 Genes Tested:
https://chrismasterjohnphd.substack.c...
For more information and to read more of my work, visit https://www.chrismasterjohn-phd.com/
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