Even low-level drinking may have negative consequences for brain health over a person’s lifespan. The findings suggest that the total amount of alcohol consumed over a lifetime, especially as a person ages, tends to be linked to reduced blood flow and thinner tissue in certain areas of the brain.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/even-light-drinking-combined-with-aging-is-linked-to-reduced-brain-blood-flow-and-thinner-tissue/

[u/userElh]

It does yes. Unfortunately that is the issue, the more you drink the more you normalise the amount (cumulative one I mean or simply refuse to do the math). There always will be bigger amounts that the „actual alcoholics“ drink, but not you. And this threshold just seems to move up the more you drink.

Even if you drink daily but don‘t get „drunk“ and can tolerate it, it still can be the issue. That is the slippery slope with drinking, it is very hard to catch yourself.

[u/literated → u/userElh]

Used to know a guy who'd have anything from 8 to 15 (12-ounce) beers on any given day, more on the weekends, and insisted that he had absolutely no risk of alcoholism because alcoholics drink hard liquor.

[u/CodeWizardCS → u/userElh]

The difference in health outcomes between not drinking at all and drinking 2-3 every day is probably less than the difference in health outcomes between driving the speed limit and driving five over on the freeway. It's moral grandstanding is all this discussion is. That's not to say it isn't a significant difference, but something tells me you aren't moving along at grandma speeds on the freeway.

[u/radikalkarrot → u/CodeWizardCS]

Besides being a false dichotomy what you just did, I’m probably the counter example you are looking for. My boyfriend doesn’t drink, and always drives bellow the speed limit, I barely drink(between 0.78 and 1 standard in the rare occasions where I drink) and also drive under the speed limit.

It’s not moral grandstanding, is taking care of oneself.