 Next question is from Sarah Larson. What's the healthiest choice for alcohol? Oh yeah. That's a funny question. Okay, so before you answer this, Sal, because I'm sure you have an answer for it, when it's quote-unquote healthiest, right? Yeah. If you read online and you Google stuff, the answer you're going to get is the lowest calorie one. Is there any other alcohol choices that provide any other... Wine, I know that they tout the antioxidants, right? Yeah, can we look up gin too? I've heard a lot of people touting gin is like a shot, like having some kind of health benefit to it, and I don't know if that's like... Because vodka is one of the lowest calorie... It is. Yeah, like hard alcohol drinks. Well, that makes the most sense. And so if you were going to do quote-unquote healthiest, you would do something like tonic water and vodka or vodka shot would most likely... And that's purely not because it's healthier, but because it's lowest calorie. Yeah, okay, so first of all, there is no healthy alcohol. Contrary to popular media, there are no health benefits to alcohol. Now, you could argue that maybe the health benefits could come from connecting with people, the traditions that they involve, and yeah, there's health benefits to that, but the alcohol itself is not healthy. Now, you will read... At all, by the way, it's connected. Any amount of alcohol increases risk of cancer, for example, and studies will show that. So it's just not healthy at all. It doesn't mean you shouldn't drink it. I enjoy alcohol sometimes. It's not that big of a deal. Now, as far as health is concerned, here's what you're going to hear. You're going to hear, well, wine contains antioxidants and resveratrol, and gin contains these, you know, it's made from these berries. Tequila has got these compounds that don't get utilized like sugar, so it's better on insulin. Okay, those are all such like... They always use the antioxidant angle. All of them are these miniscule benefits to any of these drinks. First of all, you're not going to drink enough wine to gain whatever benefit you get from the antioxidant stuff. The alcohol negates it all. Totally. It's just as much from smelling a strawberry. Yes. Yes. Yeah, blueberries, you know, just a couple blueberries. Really, what you want to look at is what the biggest impact on my health, negatively, is going to come from the calories and from the alcohol itself. I could say this, you may be able to make an argument about having a small hermetic effect if it's not that much, but you're introducing it almost as like anything else. Plants provide certain hermetic effect because of certain toxic elements there. Yeah, I don't know. Like I said, if you look at the studies on alcohol, by itself, it's just not healthy. Again, though, sometimes it's connected to health because sometimes it's connected to other behaviors that may be healthy. For example, traditions, rituals, you know, maybe it helps you connect with your friends. Obviously, you can overdo that as well. But by itself, no, it's not healthy. And so, okay, if you want to pick the healthiest, you go with the lowest calorie and you hit the nail on the head. It's vodka. Bodybuilders had it right. You look at bodybuilders, when they go drink, what do they have? Vodka, you know, water. Vodka soda water, vodka tonic or whatever. So it's going to be the lowest calorie thing. Now, here's what I have to say about this. If you're going to go drink alcohol, you know, here's the real benefits of it. It's the environment, the people you're with. Are you enjoying yourself in which case? I don't care what kind of alcohol you're drinking. Pick the one that you enjoy because that's the point, right? Yeah. That's the whole point of, in my opinion. If you're looking for one that's the healthiest, you're probably doing it too often. Yeah, yeah. I'm just going to say that. No, that's a really good point, Justin, because I mean, we just, we were just in Florida. We would, at the day that Sal flew, Doug, Justin and I, we basically laid out on the beach all day. You had a little flag and they'd bring you over drinks and food. And I had decided that this is a very rare occasion that the three of us lay out at the beach all day and have someone serving drinks to us. Not once did it cross my mind, ooh, what should I, I should get the lowest calorie one. I wanted the one I wanted to enjoy because that's what I was doing at that point. It wasn't like a mission to get drunk. It wasn't just another weekend where I'm getting drunk again. It's like, this doesn't happen very often. I want to, we're in the sun, a, you know, fruity, daiquiri type of drink, which is not something I would drink if I was in a bar or at a wedding or something like that. It was for the moment and it never crossed my mind how many calories it has compared to something. Yeah, I think you're missing the bow. And you're right, Justin. If you're like really like trying to, you know, get all the healthiest options about it, you're probably drinking so much of it that this is. Yeah. And in which case, yeah, then it might drink less. You might want to, yeah. Why don't you start by drinking less? The point isn't that, right? So if I drink alcohol, I don't think to myself, what's the healthiest option? Unless I drank a lot, I guess it would be, you know, what do I enjoy drinking? And I'm doing this with my friends and that's the whole point, you know, it's like, it's like if I go out to eat pizza, like, yeah, I could get the healthiest pizza version, but why not get the one that tastes the best because I'm with my friends and I'm enjoying myself, you know, type of deal. So I think that's the whole point. Now I will say this, you can, you know, we work with a company called Zebiotic and Zebiotic does, I mean, this is a pretty wild product. It definitely has a huge impact on the negative effects that I get from alcohol. Like when I drink alcohol, first off, I used to rarely almost never drink it because I always felt like complete garbage the day after, always. And so I almost never, I was like almost never. Yeah. Just wasn't worth it, didn't matter, didn't have it. Now you'll see me have the occasional alcohol because the Zebiotics, I don't get that same inflamed, crappy, you know, feeling afterwards, which I guess comes from this byproduct of alcohol that your body has trouble kind of breaking down, in which case the Zebiotic. So that's one thing you could do. In other words, pick the drink you want to have, enjoy yourself with your friends, and if you want to do something that'll maybe reduce some of the negative effects than do the Zebiotics, but don't worry so much about the type of alcohol. Hey, if you enjoyed that clip, you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here. 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