Dozens of diseases are attributable to alcohol consumption—but many can be slowed or reversed by cutting down on or quitting drinking, according to a new review co-authored by researchers at Harvard Chan School.
The causal impact of alcohol on the four broad categories of infectious disease from the last Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health [1] has been confirmed in recent reviews [15, 16]. The main biological mechanism involves alcohol-induced liver dysfunction, which disrupts both non-specific innate and adaptive immune responses through acute and chronic alcohol consumption [80-84]. Lowered immune responses increase susceptibility to communicable diseases. More specific biological pathways are described in the references listed in Table 1.
They also found that drinking raises the risk of:
…sexually transmitted infections
This statement really made we wonder if they thought about actual causality at all.
Stop. Fucking. Your. Beer. Bottles.
I’m more partial to whisky bottles.
Now you’re just bragging.
1984 calendar meme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFLu8_rEQL0
From a summary:
Or from the review itself:
Didn’t know liver and immune system are that connected
Lol I bet they just drunk fuck a lot. It’s fine. Don’t be a nerd.
Good point, highly likely the PhD students who authored this review were never taught about causation and correlation.