Alcohol and Radiation Treatment

I never "buzz " lol, if I have anything to drink it is like 2 oz ( literary) of red wine on special occasion , so not even slight buzzing even than.

In Southern Europe in general people never drink to get a buzz and if anybody gets drunk it is considered very primitive and unsightly.

Lady being tipsy is like "abomination" lol. I was shocked (and still am) about amount of alcohol used daily in the USA and seeing tipsy women at restaurants and bars is still shocking to me O_O !!! Yuck ...

My husband is the same way - no regular consumption of alcohol of any kind, but I understand people that wish to have a glass of red wine with dinner when dining out or on special occasion.

It is definitely better not to drink ever, but if one just HAS to have something, I think wine is definitely better than lets say tequila .

If my post bothers you or you prefer to consume alcohol whether it is harmful to your overcoming cancer or not, now is maybe a good time to consider your drinking habit.

If you have prostate cancer here are the health guidelines in addition to daily exercise

I’m a “beer snob” and typically drink every day. During my EBRT treatments, I cut back to one drink on the nights before a treatment. I wasn’t specifically told to do that, but realized that the carbonation could add to gas in my colon which was undesirable. With the exception of one of my first treatments, I had no gas problems during my 39 radiation sessions.

Jim, I agree with you and drinking in moderation has become a slippery slope.
Two drinks (REALLY 2 shots of alcohol - not MY version of a drink!). Used to be considered moderate. It now ranks as ‘heavy’ if you do it every day.
Can’t tell you how many times I filled out a health questionnaire in a doctor‘s office and it asked me how many drinks I had in a typical week. I would always put down 10 to 14, since those were drinks based on one shot of liquor or glasses of wine or beer. Never once did a doctor question that amount, suggest I should cut down or give any guidance at all.
Sadly, they were following guidelines that were influenced by the liquor lobby in the United States, who actually paid doctors to find people who drank higher amounts of alcohol, but had no diseases or illnesses. They did not ask how long people drank this amount of liquor, nor did they ask if they started or stopped at any point.
So if I was filling out a questionnaire today, I would say I drink zero alcohol, but I have had prostate and bladder cancer. So they would take this data and trumpet it across the media to show that someone who drinks NO alcohol whatsoever still gets prostate and bladder cancer. Therefore, alcohol has NO effect when it comes to these types of diseases since abstaining offers no advantage.
The famous wine study linking Resveratrol to heart health never mentioned that you would have to drink the equivalent of 10,000 bottles of wine in a single sitting to get the amount of resveratrol necessary to what’s the weather offer any cardiac benefit whatsoever. But they made that simple link and sales took off!!
Total deception and cherry picking to the extreme, but unfortunately many studies are carried out this way; these days you have to read an article and then spend a lot more time fact checking and figuring out how they came to the conclusions they did…sad indeed!
Phil

A “standard” glass of wine is 3 to 5 ounces, depending on the type of wine. Many people consider 16 ounces a “glass” of wine.

How is that even possible 😳. Standard wine glass is 4-6 oz to the rim ... And nobody pours wine to the rim, hence "glass of wine is 3-4 oz ". What vessel are they using to drink wine from 😵‍💫 ??? A beer glass LMAO

There are really big wine glasses that are meant to be filled with a small amount but are often filled to the top.

Ha ha, that again must be American thing - "jumbo sized wine glasses", probably produced in Texas 👍. My friend from Texas once told me "all is bigger here in Texas" 😂

Those glasses must look really ridiculous BTW 😳 - if one drinks wine from a bowl, than he/she really has a problem in so many ways 😋.

16 oz glass