Does One Less Drink Matter? How Timing and Quantity of Alcohol Affects Your Biometric Data

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Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Emily Capodilupo, WHOOP SVP of Data Science & Research, joins Will Ahmed to share recently analyzed data on alcohol consumption patterns and what we see happen to the body physiologically with each and every drink. Emily shares what we're trying to achieve with recovery (2:28), the negative effects of alcohol on recovery (3:46), the effect of every incremental drink on recovery (5:32), the differences between men and women when it comes to alcohol consumption (7:48), holiday drinking (11:...

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0:00.0	Hello folks. Welcome back to the WOOP podcast where we sit down with top athletes,
0:08.0	researchers, scientists, and more to learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their
0:12.9	peak. And what you can do to unlock your own best performance, I'm your host, Will Ahmed,
0:17.7	founder and CEO of Woop, and we are on a mission to unlock human performance.
0:22.6	That's right.
0:23.6	This week's episode, we're talking about alcohol.
0:27.6	That's right.
0:28.6	Booze.
0:29.6	If you use Whoop, you probably have seen how drinking alcohol
0:33.6	can hurt recovery.
0:34.6	But we have some new and interesting data
0:36.6	that shows just how much every drink can affect you.
0:39.9	This is a fascinating conversation.
0:42.0	I sat down with Emily Capitaluco or SVP of Data Science and Research to break down all the data,
0:48.5	and really to ask her how alcohol affects our bodies.
0:53.4	Emily shares the negative effect of alcohol and recovery,
0:57.0	how every additional drink affects your physiology,
1:01.0	the differences in data between men and women,
1:04.4	the uptick of alcohol consumption around the holidays,
1:07.8	and which month has the highest alcohol consumption,
1:13.3	how alcohol consumption relative to bedtime can affect you, and this might be the most important, the hacks you need to know
1:19.0	to optimize for your best recovery with drinking. So what are the hacks that can help you
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