The Alcohol Myth We All Believed for Decades

23 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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TJ Walker explains why the decades-old belief that moderate drinking is healthy has fallen apart. Recent studies suggest there's no safe level of alcohol, contradicting the old wisdom that moderate drinkers lived longer than people who didn't drink at all.

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For decades now, there have been a lot of reports out there. It's been conventional wisdom that women could drink one alcoholic beverage per day, men up to two. That would be considered moderate alcohol consumption. And that was perfectly fine, healthy, unless you had some other underlying health issue. And in fact, the moderate drinkers lived longer than teetotalers. That was the accepted conventional wisdom. And then a lot of studies started coming out in the last couple of years saying, no, this was wrong. There's no such thing as safe alcohol consumption, which has been, frankly, a little bit of a bumper. If you're like, I am in a lot of people, and you enjoy an occasional adult beverage and you enjoy occasional glass of wine, it's been, frankly, a little depressing.