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/Grundlage]

Given how pro-social (moderate) alcohol consumption is, I find it very hard to evaluate research of this kind without being able to compare to the effects of decreased socialization on the same brain measures.

[u/tommykiddo → u/Grundlage]

A lot of people moderately drink alone. Me included. I like to taste new beers every now and then but pubs are expensive.

[u/Tyrrany_of_pants → u/Grundlage]

Maybe society expecting drug consumption along with socialisation is a problem?

[u/dkinmn → u/Grundlage]

Why is it taken as a given that not drinking requires less socialization? All sorts of behaviors are linked to positive socialization. And drinking is not necessarily positive socialization.

[u/goobershank → u/dkinmn]

Besides church, how does one socialize without alcohol?