Does Safe Alcohol Use Exist? Aurelijus Veryga at TEDxVilnius
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- Aurelijus Veryga has a PhD in biomedicine sciences, is associate professor at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, research worker at biomedicine research institute, therapist at nervous system research centre Neuromeda, president of Tobacco and Alcohol Control Coalition of Baltic States, Board Member of European Network for Smoking Prevention among many other.
He has a special interest in the field of drug addictions, is an initiator of such initiatives as Nonsmoking Class, I Was Born Not Smoking, Quit and Win, and Hospitals Without Tobacco.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations) - Наука та технологія
If alcohol was discovered today it would unquestionably be illegal. There are few drugs as destructive for the self and society than alcohol.
Well... actually alcohol is contained in every fruit that you eat, so it cannot be forbidden as a whole and it isn't possible to not have discovered it yet.
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Great information. There is no safe limit for alcohol consumption. Science in the last 50 years has gradually pointed to the correct answer: the body was not designed to be fed alcohol in any quantity
Yes true! That was my doctoral dissertation study. My book Moderate Drinking: Fatal Attraction or Healing Power
Why You Should Care about the Evidence.
Same goes for beef and pork but that doesn't stop most people 😅
@@suetaylor5159 You cannot compare meat with alcohol. Meat does not affect your cognition for example
I called it intellectual dishonesty in my recently published book.
Using former alcoholics as a control group to prove that moderate drinking is beneficial for health is shameful!
Thank you for sharing!
What is the name of your book?
I am wanting to attract more love and spirituality into my life and I know those things are not in alcohol
A vegan?
@@DerSaa
That I am
Same here brother
The problem with drinking, for me is. If something bad happens I drink in an attempt to forget, if something good happens i drink in order to celebrate and if nothing happens i drink to make something happen.
If your looking for a good way to quit drinking without cravings, the book Easyway to quit drinking by Alan Carr is great.
wonderful talk! 'we are pushed to believe it is safe to drink' the video shows why it's abolutely not.
'we are free to choose of course but we must have the information.'
EVERYONE is at risk. Exactly. The more you drink, the more you need. It isn't rocket science ... or a disease. Enjoyed this Ted Talk.
Alcohol is perfectly safe as a disinfectant or cleaner. Not at all safe for human consumption though.
Why is that, I've drank alcohol resposibly for decades and never had one problem.
Alcohol is the worst to come more drugs
Don't be ingront
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I basically resorted to self imposed solitary confinement but am sure glad I quit. Life has been such a struggle since but the empowerment of sobriety is a confidence boost. Intertwining the biochemistry of alcohol with cultural pressures makes this TEDx Talk quite worthy.
How are you coping? Hope you found friends that share your level.
Holding up in a home is great if you have one I like to read more and watch more movies... Psyching up to write more.
I noticed my eating habits are much healthier and I enjoy eating and drinking proper drinks like chocolate malts more.
Learning to enjoy simple pleasures of Life while sober is a great blessing and the beginning of any enlightened life I think.
I watched this video when I quit drinking 3 years ago during new years eve of 2018. I was 23. Alcohol ravaged my life from ages 21-22. I relapsed on my 24th birthday, quit again, but started again few months later. Alcohol ruined my life again until the age of 25. I finally quit much later at the age of 26 and here I am again, 8 months sober now. But the damage has been done. My life is ruined at this young age and my connections with people are broken.
Are you doing better?
Yes, how are you brother?
Everyday is a new day. Start over again.
Consider getting treatment with the medication Naltrexone. 80% effective for reducing cravings, and then usage drops off. Read the book "The Cure for Alcohol" by Roy Escapa.
Hi. Are you able to be sober or still struggling?
I try to live as healthy and active mentally and physically as possible, but the cuture here in the Netherlands as a student is to drink when hanging out. i am wanting to reduce my alcohol drinking to a minimum but also don't want to stop seeing my friends. :(
Drinking to excess is merely a symptom. One should look for the emotional pain that is causing the person to self medicate with alcohol. Just dealing with drinking and calling it a disease is just treating the symptom and until you stop ignoring the underlying cause will only lead to failure.
Absolutely correct!
I used to get a 12 pk after work every night. To loosen up and to power through a late night painting session. Even though that is bad, I would make that my cut off and go to bed. Then I convinced myself that I didn't want to be holding onto a warm beer so I would just chug them. Soon that would run out and I would go get more late at night. Then I convinced myself that a 5th of whiskey would save money and then I also wouldn't run out of beer. Soon I was chugging cups of whiskey followed by chugging a beer. Then I started saving a couple beers for the hangover before going to work. Then simply drinking the entire time I wasn't at work. Until I walked in and as soon as I walked out. Then I had a seizure at work. I woke up on the floor surrounded by my co workers and EMS. I said I was fine, no memory at all. They made me go to the emergency room. Still I continued to drink, having seizures and blackouts. Breaking my ribs, hitting my head. I'm much better now but still a switch gets flipped and I'm a monster. I easily slam a 6pk in 30 min and only wake up even more. I never throw up and can go for days straight without eating. Like a shark in a feeding frenzy. My eyes roll back and don't stop as long as I can smell blood. Even worse, even after weeks of sobriety I get bored and miss the chaos. Like a slingshot let go I fly fast. I remember thinking that if life sucks this bad when I'm sober, I might as well just have the buzz too. If it weren't for my wife I would probably commit suicide by alcohol poisoning.
Important information. I've been wondering if I should try to drink in moderation. After all, my bout with alcoholism didn't end in jail. But I guess I wont. Wish me luck.
Hey, Juanita, I'm curious. Did you manage to abstain from alcohol or you decided to use it in moderation. How did it go for you? Just thought I ask you.
I'm still alcohol free. Thanks for asking.
And now? Hope you're doing well :D
Ginger Mosley well done !!
This was excellent!! Finally hearing this after watching literally hundreds of videos on this topic.
Impressive lecture, everybody should see it. Thank you :)
Hi to all the people in health class watching this last minute
Visada įdomu klausytis p.A.Verygos mokslu paremtų pranešimų. Tai labai įtagios, visiem suprantamos ir labai informatyvios prezentacijos. Dėkoju už galimybę pasiklausyt. Sėkmės.
And now he is minister of health
Debilas jis.
Great presentation. Thank you for sharing.
yes. And the energetic body becomes over sensitive in general, whilst f.e smoking hardens. Rudolf Steiner also has made some fantastic informative info on alcohol and explains in great detail what it does.
I've suffered from addiction for years, not being aware i was addicted. The body is robbed from the spirit-and i didn't realize untill my life became spiritual, i started to develop spiritual practices. It's not a coincidence that the other name for alcohol is spirit.
Yes, true about the risk of alcoholism, but our culture is so intertwined with various uses of alcohol that it is impossible to ban alcohol. We, the society must set clearer limits for use. We are social beings and we can influence each other. Still the deepest cause for addiction is struggle to get rid of ones problems. There is no solution today, but drinking only with friends on parties not more than once a week could reduce the chance of alcoholism. Other method to test yourself is to obstain (not to drink) for at least one month. If you cannot do it, you have a problem with alcohol.
This is brilliant.
Damn...Lithuania is a different world!
Banning things is never the answer. Good ideas should be able to be implemented voluntarily. 🙏
Alcohol is bad for you, but so are many different types of food. We do consume these foods and drinks because we love them. If we learn how to manage our consumption, we can appreciate the positive feelings associated with these substances, while minimizing the negative effects. We only live once, we should be able to enjoy the unhealthy part of life, as long as it doesn't define our lives.
Well said. It’s hard to tell how much is okay though
No there isn't same as all the myphs about control and limits. You simply don't drink at all, no beers no wines... stay strong brothers and sisters. Love
Excellent!
I have read that doctors recommend moderation bc they realistically don’t expect anyone to abstain 100%, so they shoot for minimizing the intake in their patients. Very sad that they can’t be completely honest and let us know the actual reality - abstinence is the only way to avoid risk, but the less you drink, the lower your risk. So if you choose to drink at all, drink minimally. But we would rather you drink none.
No safe dosage of ethanol
I cant understand why alcohol is still legal?
Its because govrement get profit?
anonymous TVP I can't understand why other drugs aren't legal
It disrupts REM sleep, so it isnt good for good quality sleep
thank you for you video, I don't drink much, or that often, but your saying the right thing
insightful!
16:00 Everyone should know this !!
Alcohol is worst drug then opioid s
good luck
Ačiū.
Prašom
I grew up in the 70s.i never thought see the day when alcohol was called poison and cannibus medicine..even though we knew it way back then!!!lmao
Veryga ble
I understand that most of these TEDs are intentionally light on statistics, but it would have been useful to go into, at least briefly, the incidence of the 16 diseases that alcohol may promote. If they are naturally low, a 10% increase is relatively insignificant, if high, that same 10% is far more worrisome.
premed2 True, but would you want to take the chance in the name
of “fun” and hope that you’re not it that 10% increase? Only for you to answer, but personally I wouldn’t. Also, he shows 15 different graphs (if you look closely the lines showing risk are colored differently for men, women, and both genders) but with the captions on he says alcohol causes 60 (not 16) other diseases. I agree, would be good to dive in to the statistics more.
I thought he said 60, not 16. I know there are at least 30 diseases that are caused only by alcohol consumption and I've heard around 200 that are exascerbated by it. They may have been a sample 16 or the top 16 though.
wen the doctors don;t ,or refuse to give me pain medication wen i have no choice i drink alcohol , and on the other hand people that don't need pain med;s get it that gets me piss;t off . i dont even go to the hospital no more for pain i go to the L C B O i live in Canada and that piss,s me off .i can go get methadone like right now but i don;t because it is more addicting then most pain med's i feel like i am in a trap .
whatever you're on right now is having a negative impact on your typing :-)
i never went to school sorry
LoL
+Vincent Dublino you shouldn't make someone feel inferior just because a person can't spell. Maybe it's his second language. If that's the case he knows more than you! Hope you are feeling grandiose!!
it was a joke - lighten up for God's sake. It didn't look like spelling mistakes to me, it looked like typing errors, which i often make myself. Second language... gimme a break. Lighten up. If you think that was mean apparently you haven't been blogging very long LoL
Drink 60 ponder every day
van wijn maken ze azijn
че в Литве все по-английски говорят ? молодцы
People just hate this video
Good..but I wish the speaker had a better Grip on the English language..
Just use subtitles...
Well, what doesn't kill you makes you more stronger
Helal san adam
How about SSRIs? Are they good for you? 🤔. Yet, you guys prescribe them like water. Why the heck would we even believe the official medicine dogma? I'm sick of it.
What acout PSSd?
What people do not understand is that alcohol was made illegal for a reason. America was facing a gigantic alcoholism epidemic, do you understand that Alcoholism was literally destroying America.
And with Prohibition we got the mob and thousands of deaths by people who poisoned themselves with alcohol substitutes. We quickly came to our senses and ended Prohibition.
robert traverso yes i am happy it was legalized again. You can't make something illegal without majority understanding the dangers and giving something to fill the difference. In my opinion we should make all drugs legal.
For myself I grew up being taught that drinking alcohol was a sin. I have learned that, that is not true. Instead drinking alcohol is healthy in moderation. Now I am trying to get in the habit of drinking more alcohol so I can have better health. I have and I recommend anyone give up soft drinks because they are loaded with corn syrup. They will put you in the grave. My sister said when she was young that she promised herself that; when she got older she would drink all the soft drinks she wanted. She was on dialysis for 10 years before dying of a heart attack in her 60s. My mother also had a 6 bypass in her 60s plus stents, and major osteoporosis. And you guessed it, they didn't drink alcohol. But sadly, today we seldom here about the soft drink addiction or how they are destroying people's lives. 🙂 in contrast my in laws have drunk alcohol all their lives. My father in law is 90 now and my mother in law is in her 80s. They are both still going. And neither one have ever had a surgery in their whole life. George Burns is another example.
Fact is if you drink alcohol in moderation and get rid of soft drinks etc. You will be healthier and add years to your life!!!!
Many think drinking alcohol is a sin because of Proverbs 23:31-33 "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things."
However red fermented wine, is the same color as before it was fermented. Plus you can get drunk on white wine. And fermented wine does not move either.
What it is talking about in Proverbs 23:31-33 is Do not continue drinking when you can feel your face has turned red and things around the room or the cup looks like it is moving due to you being drunk; do not continue to drink or you will be saying all kinds of perverse things to women strangers etc. because you are over drunk.
The translation could be better. Fact is the Bible never teaches against drinking alcohol,. It only teaches not to overdo it, and for people like Judges, not to be drunk when hearing cases. Etc.
Well said
So just because a unhealthy lifestyle diet (sugars, fats, etc) can kill you faster than alcohol doesn’t make it any healthier. Moderation is key. I’ve seen countless patients die from liver cirrhosis bc alcohol consumption.
Veryga made our school food bad :(
Manau lietuviškai jis geriau padarytų šį pranešimą. Angliškai jam nelabai sekasi.
o aš manau, kad puikiai pristatyta ir anglų kalbos klaidų yra palyginus laaaabai mažai! :)
Vilma Vanagaite
Su kuo palyginus? Jūs su savimi lyginate?
Javgenijus Karpovas Nerandu Jevgenijau tavo TEDx pranešimo :( Būtų galima palyginti.
In the US the main cause of death is heart disease, ahead of all cancer. Only a few percent of the cancer deaths are attributable to alcohol, and I imagine most of them are heavy drinkers. I have a family history of heart disease, but not cancer. My guess is that a couple of glasses of wine has a small net benefit for me.
Is there a safe limit for soft drinks, for instance? You can mess up your liver with fructose just as surely as with alcohol, and increase heart disease, with no benefits. If you have a problem maintaining a moderate level of alcohol, that's one thing. But the endless "alcohol is poison" comments make me tune out.
it has to be a personal experience/decision. i have a 95 yr old uncle. he drank beers with an occasional shot of booze every day. he still enjoys a few beers at our family gatherings. should he have not drank alcohol at all during his life? his wife drank and lived to be 90.
there is always comment story like that....
Drink up rummy.
At 90 he can do any damn thing he feels like, but for the rest of us, alcohol can be not so great. I quit over eight years ago and feel a lot better.
We can never know how long the alcohol tolerant that live to 100, may have made it to if they were alcohol free. 120? Or, dare you say sometimes alcohol, in some cases, prolongs life? Hmmmmmmm... (Really?)
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Science can't say for sure. As usual everyone goes to the safe default of "everything in moderation". I know plenty of people who drank heavy yet still lived long, productive lives. I knew others that died young from cirrhosis. You decide or gamble what's best for yourself. In the meantime,
Cheers Kemosabe!
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So he's saying it's cool to get wasted?
Why try to explain why alcohol is bad with questionable reasonings when there is data ? The only interesting thing was the apparent increase in the probability to develop 16 diseases from alcohol use, and we didn't get numbers... Really disappointing for a 19min video !
Yeah this was pretty useless. Esspecially for a fricken Ted talk
boring... i'm not getting alive out of this anyway, might as well drink in the meantime.
Info wrong and misleading to put it mildy, and talk English properly! My advice is ignore this guy completely! His advice is completely wrong, just another like the sound of my own voice vid. I'm not going into great detail because it would be a book to say whats wrong with this, use google and wiki! One tip 28units of whiskey or 28 units of vodka NO they are not the same! 40% alcohol causes you to dehydrate, cider @ 7.5% does not! Quite clearly this guy has not been an alcoholic and knows nothing about it.
He just passed his life to study it with many people, he didn't go to the first topic on Google U.u
Nonsense. If you think cider doesn't dehydrate you, empty your bladder and start drinking. Now fill the empty cider bottles with piss (we alcoholics have practice). You will run out of bottles because for every pint you drink, you'll piss 1.25 pints or more. 28 units of vodka and 28 units of whiskey *is* the same. It's the *same amount of alcohol* - the substance being measured in units.
"Google and Wiki it". {facepalm}
P.S. I come from a long and illustrious line of alcoholics and I'm just 15 days sober. A 30 year+ non-stop session brought me here. I'm somewhat qualified in terms of personal experience and I'm afraid you're simply ignorant of the facts.
"for every pint you drink, you'll piss 1.25 pints or more" ... I have heard this urban legend before and it is nonsense. Think about it - a person will die after 3 days without water. If what you say is true, a person who drinks nothing but cider will be dead of dehydration in less than 3 days! Does that sound right to you? I'm not saying dead from alcohol poisoning, but if you drank say 5 ciders a day and nothing else, would you die of dehydration in less than 3 days? I don't think so!
Anyway congratulations on getting sober, I am not encouraging alcohol use but this dehydration argument you gave can't possibly be true.
ChrisFarmer
You're forgetting the % of yourself that's made of water. It's quite a lot.
And - yes, you can die of dehydration in hours, let alone days.
P.S. made it to day 32. Had a few vodkas tonight ;) lol
MAX LAWLESS™ No, I'm not forgetting that. In fact, when you die of dehydration it is because that amount gets too low. What I'm saying is do you really believe a person trapped on a raft who only had cider to drink would be dead before the person with nothing to drink? Because if your idea is true, this must be the case.
Today is Friday. Do you think if I drank only 5 ciders today and 5 tomorrow and didn't have any water, that I would be dead by Sunday morning? There are plenty of alcoholics who have proved that wrong.
Don’t blame the alcohol Bro at the end of the day is people decision full stop
Excellent!