Dylan Scott, a senior correspondent and senior good pal of mine.

Bird Pinkerton, pal of mine, and co-host of Unexplainable.

You have a mystery for me, I believe, about alcohol.

I do. So if you're anything like me, you know, I think we both grew up in the 90s, you have heard some very mixed messages about what drinking moderate amounts of alcohol can do for your health.

Just in time for the weekend, a new warning about the dangers of alcohol and cancer.

It feels like every week you read the news and there's a new warning about the dangers of alcohol and cancer.

It feels like every week you read the news and there's a new study about alcohol and it's saying the exact opposite of the study you were reading about last week.

Several studies have shown moderate drinking may be good for your overall health, but

no amount of alcohol is good for your health.

Less drinking means less risk.

So I decided, like, I want to get to the bottom of this for myself and for our audience.

Like, I want to actually understand what to think about the health effects of drinking

moderate amounts of alcohol.

Okay. And so what did you find? Like, what are the health effects of drinking moderate amounts

of alcohol? Well, this is unexplainable. So I found it was unexplainable, but in a way that I think is really

interesting and revealing. Because this story of alcohol's health effects that are imperfect

attempts to measure it is I think the story of how it's really, really hard to isolate and pin down the health effects of all kinds of things that we really would want answers about, these things that we interact with and consume all of the time.

Okay. Let's go.

Okay. Let's go. You know, I think to start. You know, I think to start, we should establish that the science is pretty settled when it comes to heavy drinking.

Alcohol is bad for you.

It has neurological effects.

It causes liver disease.

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