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dexwiz | 10 days ago

Something I've never seen in these analyses is drinking. Millennials are heavy drinkers. Both craft brews and cocktails were defining generational traits. Not everyone is a drinker but it appears they are heavy drinkers compared to other generations.

The theory behind the ultra marathoners is that extreme distance running disrupts the epithelial layer and microbiome in the gut. Wouldn't drinking have similar effects?

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caminante|10 days ago

> Millennials are heavy drinkers.

That's news to millenials and the graveyard of craft breweries. I thought alcohol consumption is trending off for younger generations.

SamoyedFurFluff|10 days ago

Millennials are not the younger generation anymore. That refers to Gen Z and alpha.

RupertSalt|9 days ago

Alcohol has adverse interactions with psych meds, and THC is becoming the recreational drug of choice.

panzagl|10 days ago

I hate to break it to you, but Millennials aren't a younger generation anymore...

though I'm not sure they drank any more than the 2-3 generations that proceeded them.

advisedwang|10 days ago

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6819207/

> Compared to non-/occasional drinking (≤1 g/day), light/moderate drinking (up to 2 drinks/day) was associated with a decreased risk of CRC (OR: 0.92, 95% CI: 0.88–0.98, p=0.005), heavy drinking (2–3 drinks/day) was not significantly associated with CRC risk (OR: 1.11, 95% CI: 0.99–1.24, p=0.08), and very heavy drinking (more than 3 drinks/day) was associated with a significant increased risk (OR: 1.25, 95% CI: 1.11–1.40, p<0.001)... These results provide further evidence that there is a J-shaped association between alcohol consumption and CRC risk.

I guess these sites don't bring up drinking because except for very heavy drinking the data says it's not a factor.

anoojb|10 days ago

This finding is crazy! I wonder how many modern health issues have to do with healthy blood/nutrient flow to tissues, that are basically solved with either mild/moderately amounts of movement and a balanced diet.

zbentley|10 days ago

I thought lots of data indicated that millennials were drinking less than previous generations?