• SuperCub
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    7 months ago

    What happens when you drink alcohol? I think alcohol thins the blood, right? So, does it happen less?

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      7 months ago

      I stopped drinking a while ago, so I can’t answer that accurately. but check out what I found:

      An extensive body of data shows concordant J-shaped associations between alcohol intake and a variety of adverse health outcomes, including coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure, stroke, dementia, Raynaud’s phenomenon, and all-cause mortality. Light to moderate alcohol consumption (up to 1 drink daily for women and 1 or 2 drinks daily for men) is associated with cardioprotective benefits, whereas increasingly excessive consumption results in proportional worsening of outcomes.

      So it sounds like 1 daily drink for me might improve the condition but more alcohol will worsen it.

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