Dr Federica Amati

Yeah, I do.

Because the reason I believe that is because our body is very good at helping us stay alive.

And I do believe that having a glass of red wine, but you know, a glass of red wine, no one drinks that.

It's like this much.

I think a glass of red wine with your family sitting down in the context of a

such a minor part of the other greatness that's part of that lifestyle, that it probably just helps people come together and have a moment of like, cheers, great.

Yeah, it's directly contributing to the cancers that we see.

So especially liver and gastrointestinal tract.

So esophagus, mouth, stomach and colon cancer directly.

And also one that I think is really not spoken about enough is in postmenopausal women, drinking alcohol is one of the biggest risk factors for breast cancer.

Why?

Well, again, it's a carcinogen.

The exact mechanism as to why specifically breast cancer is something that I haven't... I don't know why exactly that.

So I know that there's a relationship there and there's a very obvious causative link.

If we had to understand at cellular level why specifically breast cancer...

I don't know, I'd have to think about it for a minute.

But it's such a, it's a well-established relationship.

And a lot of women post-menopausally actually interestingly come to me and say, I can't, I don't tolerate alcohol anymore.

I don't know why I can't drink.

And I used to drink quite a lot.