What's the deal with alcohol? I mean if we're doing everything right if we're exercising and we're reducing our intake of garbage food we're eating as little processed foods as possible if we're doing everything right, isn't it also okay to indulge in the occasional

glass of wine? Or is all alcohol bad? Are there in fact health benefits consuming one glass

of wine a day? Is all alcohol considered carcinogenic?

And how do you know if you're drinking too much? Should we change the way we drink as we age?

And if we choose to drink in moderation is one type of alcohol perhaps better than another.

Hey my name is Shalin Johnson. Welcome to the Shalin show where today we are going to have a very

real conversation about all of those things and more

I'm also going to share with you my personal feelings about alcohol what I have been doing and how I'm changing my relationship with alcohol based on some of the research that I did for this episode.

Thanks for being here. Let's get to it.

Before we go too far, I want you to know I am not going to tell you that you can't

drink alcohol that alcohol is bad for everyone you need to cut it out so that

you know you're gonna make your own decisions for you as you have thus far, but I do want to give you more information to make an informed decision about your relationship with alcohol.

And I hope that by listening to this episode, you will just examine, just look more closely at your relationship.

And I think it's important for me to say that because if you are someone who's in recovery and you are currently sober, this might not be the episode for you,

you might want to skip this episode.

It might be detrimental for you to hear someone who believes, as I do, that there isn't a one-size-fits-all,

that there are alcohols that are worse for you than others.

And if that is something that is going to be contradictory to your journey into sobriety and your current recovery,

then I encourage you to skip this episode. So this all started after realizing that I on a trip with my husband through Europe and we were going out to dinner like every single night.

I mean this starts like actually way before that but the

catalyst for doing my prep work for this episode started with our trip through

Europe and we're going up to dinner every single night and eating at fine dining restaurants,

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