
057: Edward Slingerland on getting drunk & the evolutionary history of alcohol
A LOAD OF BS ON SPORT
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Is There a Relationship Between Alcohol and Machoism?
You can drink on an alcoholic beer quite surreptitiously if you so wish. We're also getting increasingly sophisticated and nice tasting mocktails, so you could be drinking a cocktail that actually doesn't have alcohol in it. And the other thing, especially if you are just a moderate drinker and you want to just limit your intake, you get a pretty decent placebo effect from non-alcoholic versions. That's great because you're getting the psychological benefits with kind of the physiological harms. Yeah, and I also think that nowadays the relationship between alcohol and machoism is diminishing for younger generations.
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