Does One Less Drink Matter? How Timing and Quantity of Alcohol Affects Your Biometric Data
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How Do Drinks Affect Recovery?
Each incremental drink makes your recovery go down about four point two % lower per drink. There's a lot of interindividual variability here. We saw, like just one drink, the effect is relatively small. But when you're talking about, ah, ten or more drinks, your resting heart rates going up like 14 beats perminente. So it's really, really dramatic. A, your steep incline as the drinks increase. The slopes were pretty similar between men and women. Of course, women tend to start with slightly higher aresting heart rates,. And so you see the lines starting, you know, a little bit separated, but they maintain the same separation. It suggests that
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