The Longer You Abstain from Alcohol the Lower the Risk – After 20 years of alcohol abstention, the increased mortality risk disappeared.
Best health practices should always be on the table – always. The continual couching of abstinence as a ‘bridge to far’ is not only disingenuous to those self-harming with alcohol, but also disempowering. One thing best-health care practice should do is empower, enable, and equip people to not only discover, but persist in health maximising endeavours. (Source: American Journal of Preventative Medicine May 2023)