The Surprising Truth About Alcohol's Impact on Brain Health

You know, health risks, things that we kind of know, you know, increasing your risk for heart disease, cancer, things like that, but also brain health. And I think that's been something that we're talking a lot about more certainly in fitness with strength training and aerobic exercise and things how they affect your brain. But I want to protect my brain. And that, that whole blood brain barrier thing, there are not very many things that get past that. And the fact that alcohol can is kind of scary.

Yeah. And recently there was a pretty large and well executed study that evaluated the impacts of moderate alcohol intake on the brain. And this was pretty unique because it looked at moderate drinking, you know, versus, I think most of the research studies will sometimes look at this person's having 30 drinks a week and oh no, something's gone wrong with their brain. Like, well, okay, but what about that? Like occasional glass of wine? What about like a drink at the end of the day? What about that? And the study did find that just consuming one to two standard drinks per day or having like seven standard drinks per week led to some degree of deterioration in the brain. That was very eye opening to me, just noticing that a little bit of drinking, it's that sort of moderate drinking that we, that we talk about that somehow seems, okay, is actually having impact on our brain integrity.