Decide the experiment

Sources for this day

• Mehta et al., BMJ Open, 2018. 94 healthy moderate-to-heavy drinkers who stopped for a month compared with 47 who kept drinking. Dependence and known liver disease were excluded. Observational, not randomized.
• Strowger et al., Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2025. 16 studies and more than 150,000 participants, mostly in the United Kingdom. Benefits for people who finished and for many who cut down. A minority who could not finish reported drinking more afterward.
• IARC classification of alcoholic beverages. Group 1 describes the strength of the evidence that something can cause cancer. It does not describe the size of the risk for any one person.
• World Health Organization, 2023. The WHO position is that no level of alcohol consumption is safe for health, particularly regarding cancer risk.