#373: Alcohol & Health: Is Zero Better Than Some?

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Danny and Alan discuss the health impacts of alcohol and take a look at the research to answer whether alcohol should be viewed as having a J-shaped curve of risk or zero alcohol being better than any amount.

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[03:40] Today's Topic in Focus

[53:45] "I Have a Question!"

[62:14 ]Random Recommendations

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 373 of Sigma Nutrition Radio.
0:19.2	My name is Danny Lenin. I'm here with Alan Fanagan.
0:23.0	Alan, how are you today? I'm good. I'm still waiting for my microchip, you know, any day now.
0:29.9	I'm waiting for Bill's call. Have you had many friends, family that have had the vaccine so
0:36.1	far? Just my medical friends here have had Jab 1 anyway.
0:41.4	To be fair to the uni, they're doing asymptomatic testing with the lateral flow test and
0:46.4	it's, you know, you get the results within a couple of hours and their system is really
0:52.0	well operated and run.
0:53.6	So, you know, I think as as far as an interim solution for institutions
0:59.0	like universities, if you've got a lot of people on campus,
1:01.4	like the only way to manage it is to test everybody all the time.
1:05.1	So yeah, at least they're doing that.
1:08.9	But yeah, other than that, it's lockdown life continues.
1:12.1	I'm developing fatty liver, which may have, which is not non-alcoholic.
1:19.6	On today's subject, there's a substantial contribution of red wine to my fatty liver.
1:25.1	But yeah, otherwise, there's no news. Yeah. So in relation to the PhD stuff,
1:31.4	then, where are you with that? And like, how often do you have to be in the uni? Yeah, I'm really lucky
1:36.8	as I'm now coming to appreciate more from chatting to other people or even people that are
1:42.9	at various stages of a PhD.
1:46.2	So I did my last day in the lab last Friday.
1:49.5	The next study that I'm going to do, which is in with the ethics applicate, with the
1:54.0	ethics committee in the uni now, is going to be observational anyway.
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