Drinking any amount of alcohol causes damage to the brain, study finds

Re:Drinking any amount of alcohol causes damage to the brain... by gentleman11 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:35PM (#27227616)

Another way of reading this is to conclude that you can have a fun life full of drinking at the cost of 0.8% more brain degradation while you age. I wish they would put at least some effort into explaining their numbers, because that sounds like nothing, but I’m sure the authors have reason to think otherwise

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Re:Drinking any amount of alcohol causes damage to the brain... by smabie on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:19PM (#27228685)

Yeah, personally, seems worth it. I've had a lot of good times drinking, and if it means my brain degrades 80bps more, well then so be it!

Everything has a cost and nothing is free and it's up to you to decide what decisions you are going to make. It really infuriates me when people think that a long and healthy life is something that we all should sacrifice everything for. As if the whole point of existence is to maximize those two metrics.

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Re:Drinking any amount of alcohol causes damage to the brain... by ZeroGravitas on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:59PM (#27227948)

There's a whole bunch of headlines that can be read as "this is really big" or "our measurements are very precise".

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