Many of us enjoy a fine alcoholic beverage on occasion, most of us wish we were a little

bit healthier, and many of us would take simple steps to achieve that.

Imagine if taking that little drink of fine alcohol was all it took to improve your health,

something you'd enjoy doing anyway.

Could the secret to better health really be as easy and attractive as that?

We're going to find out right now on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

On the health benefits of drinking alcohol.

Nobody doubts that being a heavy alcoholic is harmful to your health, but it also seems

that most of us have heard anecdotally that small amounts of alcohol can actually have

a beneficial effect.

Maybe it works sort of like a vaccine by giving your system a small challenge to help strengthen

it.

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