Professor Juergen Rehm

Is it safe?

Can you exclude that with your four drinks you may not attract alcohol or tubular cancer?

No.

Can those four drinks do something good for your heart?

Yes, if you drink those four drinks in a week, spaced out, you know, like every second day one drink, something like that, it has potential beneficial effects on the heart.

The no safe level does not exclude the alcohol having beneficial effects.

Basically, reduction of alcohol is having positive effects even if you do not abstain from alcohol.

It is better for your health if you drink on average three drinks instead of four drinks per day.

very clearly and very measurable.

What does it mean?

It means that certain consequences of alcohol will be removed almost immediately.

most clear and most logic and everybody knows it.

If you don't drink before you take some activities like driving or changing a light bulb, it's good for you, it's good for your reaction time, it helps.

But also for things which are quite important for disease generation in modern times, if you reduce your risks,

of hypertension via drinking less alcohol.

And again, you see those risk reductions, your blood pressure goes down the next day, and if you repeat this exercise, hypertension may go down and fade away.

That has been shown in randomized trials.

Very clearly, alcohol is one of the most effective ways to reduce your hypertension.

Your high blood pressure, exactly.

If you drink alcohol, you may get alcohol attributable cancer.