Exact number of days, months and years alcohol shaves off your life - if you drink 2, 7 or 10+ beers a week READ MORE: Drinking ANY amount of alcohol is harmful to health, experts warn By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 16:53, 6 July 2024 | Updated: 16:55, 6 July 2024 e-mail View comments One of the foremost experts on alcohol and longevity has revealed the exact amount of days, months and years booze shaves off your life. And the results may surprise people.
An average of just two drinks per week — bottles of beers, regular glasses of wine, or a couple of shots of liquor — across a lifetime can shorten one's life by just three to six days. Consuming one drink per day slashes two and half months off a person's life. It is those who booze heavily — regularly putting away 35 drinks per week (about five drinks per day or two bottles of whiskey over seven days) — that cut their life short by approximately two years.
That's according to Dr Tim Stockwell, a scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, who was an ardent supporter of moderate drinking until a fellow scientist alerted him to major flaws in the medical research. Citing findings from expansive research over the last five years or so, including his own which informed the Canadian government’s alcohol guidelines , he said that no amount is good for you. Dr Stockwell caveats that his predictions are averages and some people are luckier than others when it co.
