Professor Juergen Rehm

So for dementia, not to escape your question, one

drink a day is not making any big difference.

It is really such a small increase in risk you can barely measure it.

For dementia, a lot of the risk is in accumulating lots of relatively heavy drinking over time.

Look, that's fair.

People are making way too much about this.

There is no safe level.

I'm right now in a hotel in Lithuania.

If I leave my hotel and cross the street, am I absolutely safe that I'm not hit by a car?

What is a safe level?

I don't know what your hobbies are, but if you engage, for example, in skiing.

Yes.

There's no safe level in skiing that may be some kind of injury in your next ski trip.

Correct?

You cannot assure that there is a completely safe level.

We clearly said that based on the current evidence, there is a small protective effect of alcohol from the heart.

That doesn't mean that there is no safe level, by the way.

You can still say you drink four drinks a week, okay, as a man.

With four drinks a week, you increase your risk of cancer.

and you decrease your risk of ischemic diseases.