“As a control, vitamin E had been dissolved in alcohol. They found that just an alcohol supplement was enough to remove the age pigment from the brain cells. And that is probably because of its very powerful anti-inflammatory effect or antioxidant effect” -Ray Peat

“Alcohol turned out to be almost as effective as vitamin E so it's been known to be in a free radical quencher it breaks the chain of lipid peroxide production and so that suggests that there are probably many antioxidants that would help to eliminate age pigment” -Ray Peat

“A group has been researching that now for about 25 years, showing that fish oil and unsaturated vegetable oil interact with a little bit of alcohol to activate iron, causing oxidative damage, liver inflammation, and fibrosis. But if you have practically an unsaturated fat-free

“In India, alcoholics who are in the butter, ghee and milk eating regions don't get cirrhosis. It's purely those people that would drink or consume alcohol in the presence of polyunsaturated oils in their diet, and a group led by a man named Nanshi has demonstrated that saturated

“Alcohol can make a powerful and positive contribution to nutrition by sparing protein, and by modifying nutrition-related hormones. Although some of this work has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the stigma attached to alcohol has prevented its

“I learned that way that alcohol is an antidote for some allergens, that would normally make me intensely sick. Its antioxidant effects are as good as vitamin E’s in certain situations. Ive stopped telling people about that effect because I imagine how it could go around on the

And some additional studies on the pro-metabolic, pro-thyroid, anti-stress effects of ethanol: