Do Any Benefits of Alcohol Outweigh the Risks?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2018-04-06

What would happen if you effectively randomized people at birth to drink more or less alcohol their whole lives? Would they get more or less heart disease?

New subscribers to our e-newsletter always receive a free gift. Get yours here: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/

For more on the cool nerdy world of mendelian randomization (not just neat because it was named after a Gregor :) check out my video Coconut Oil & the Boost in HDL “Good” Cholesterol (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/coconut-oil-and-the-boost-in-hdl-good-cholesterol/).

In case you missed the previous videos in this four-part series here you go: 
• Can Alcohol Cause Cancer? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-alcohol-cause-cancer)
• The Best Source of Resveratrol (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/The-Best-Source-of-Resveratrol)
• Is It Better to Drink Little Alcohol Than None at All? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Is-It-Better-to-Drink-Little-Alcohol-Than-None-at-All)

Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-any-benefits-of-alcohol-outweigh-the-risks and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it.


Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-any-benefits-of-alcohol-outweigh-the-risks. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. 

If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg


Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution!
-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." 
Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new
To view the subtitles in transcript format, click on the ellipsis button below the video, choose "Open transcript", and select the language you'd like to view them in. 

https://NutritionFacts.org
• Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe
• Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate
• Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org
• Books: https://nutritionfacts.org/books
• Shop: https://drgreger.org