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Dose makes the poison. And some substances are beneficial at low doses and harmful at high doses.

Do you foreswear aspirin?

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Agreed - it's all in the dose and the response. Not even mentioning the selection pressure for us to adapt to at least small amounts of alcohol in our diet, which has been present in basic things such as fermented fruits that we had to eat in our ancestral environment.
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Because risk/benefit assessment is different from person to person.
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In small doses, alcohol may have other benefits that outweigh the risk of gastrointestinal cancer.

Whether it's as strong as the now Resveratrol scam or not is a matter to study honestly, though that quality seems beyond the reach of many humans motivated to prioritize something else.

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> never the bagged product, as the latter infuses microplastics.

Seriously? How can a paper tea bag infuse microplastics?

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