Well, hello, hello guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K. Secrets of a Plastic

Surgeon, and it's time for a five-minute Friday.

It is Friday.

And what should we talk about?

I'm going to talk to you all about alcohol and what it could do for your face, your aging, what it means for women.

Usually a can of beer, a glass of wine,

or a shot of tequila.

If you're a woman who indulges in this periodically,

well, I have news for you.

In Canada, the alcohol guidelines

were recently under the process of being reviewed

and replaced by new ones.

And the research that the Canadians did

encompasses two years of research articles that they reviewed, 5,000 peer review studies,

and they came up with some main keynotes. And like it or not, Canadian or not, this applies to

all of us, and women much more so than men. So stay tuned to find out.

Now let's talk about the old guidelines, first of all. In general, the old guidelines for

alcohol consumption for women state that one or two drinks per day and maybe up to three drinks

per day for men are acceptable. To understand

how drastic the changes are, think about that number. Ten drinks per week. Now we're recommended to

drink only two drinks per week. And the reason, because there's so many negative consequences

to alcohol and because these negative consequences

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