Welcome back to the channel. I'm going to talk about alcohol, what you need to know.

We're going to talk about the Surgeon General. We're going to talk about new wellness influencers.

We're going to take a dive into the evidence, the mechanistic science, the available observational evidence.

We're going to talk about what might help us along the way and what are some tips I might have at the end of this talk. But first, my background. Who am I? I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad.

I'm a practicing oncologist and hematologist here at UCSF.

I'm a professor in the Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics.

This kind of topic is right in my wheelhouse, the intersection of cancer, the intersection

of epidemiology, and the intersection of critical appraisal of medical literature.

So we're going to get into it. The surgeon general Vivek Morthy, he has issued a swan song.

His new guidance on alcohol is coming just as he's getting the boot from his office.

And he wants to put a warning label on alcohol saying that even at very low amounts, it causes increased cancer. And what cancers? How

much? Higher alcohol consumption increases cancer, according to the surgeon general, by five more

women per 100 could develop cancer if they drink two drinks a day, or three more men per 100

would develop cancer if they drink two drinks a day. This is what he says. We're going to look

to see where this evidence comes from, if it's reliable or not reliable. But this is his opinion.

Alcohol is implicated in at least seven types of cancers, according to the surgeon general.

Mouth throat, esophagus, voice box, breast and women, liver, colorectal. I just want to make one point

right off the top. These cancers

that he's linking alcohol to the cancer are also cancers where smoking has been linked to the

cancer. For instance, mouth, throat, esophagus, voice box, these are smoking related to cancers.

An open question is always when you do alcohol research, are you finding the unique effect

of alcohol

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