Most Replayed Moment: Is There A Safe Amount Of Alcohol? What Happens To The Body When You Drink!
Most Replayed Moment: Is There A Safe Amount Of Alcohol? What Happens To The Body When You Drink!
Most Replayed Moment: Is There A Safe Amount Of Alcohol? What Happens To The Body When You Drink!
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Sarah Wakeman is a physician and Medical Director specialising in substance use and addiction treatment, working on the front lines of alcohol-related harm. In this Moment, she breaks down what the science actually says about having just one drink, debunks...
Highlights
Highlights
In this episode, Dr. Sarah Wakeman—a frontline physician specializing in addiction medicine—challenges long-held assumptions about alcohol by grounding the conversation in current biomedical evidence.
Chapters
Chapters
Does 'moderate drinking' actually protect your health—or is it a dangerous myth?
00:00How even a few drinks a week quietly raise your risk of breast and esophageal cancer
04:58Why there’s no safe level of alcohol when it comes to your liver and DNA
07:24What alcohol does to your brain, stomach, and body beyond the liver
16:56Can one wild weekend trigger heart trouble—and what happens if it keeps happening?
22:16Transcript
Transcript
Steven Bartlett: so alcohol, yes, there's, I mean, alcohol's been on a journey. Yes, it's been on a journey in terms of society's opinion about it. Can you take me on that journey and tell me where we are now? And yeah, and in time when I'm saying that, ...
