Protocol

Alcohol Rules

Curated from

Attia's personal alcohol limits: ≤2 drinks/day, ≤~7 drinks/week, no drinking within 3 hours of bed, and any alcohol must taste excellent.

1 item drawn from 1 source ▼ Broad caution

Assembled by Cited from Peter Attia's recorded recommendations across multiple sources. It is not an ordered program and was not created or endorsed by them — it's our grouping of what they've said on the record.

Components

Avoids Alcohol supplement

In a protocol

Attia treats alcohol as a toxin: at most 2 drinks/day, no more than ~7 drinks/week, no drinking within 3 hours of bed, and any alcohol must taste excellent.

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alcohol is not good for you in any dose

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Dosage
<=2 drinks/day, <=~7 drinks/week, finish drinking at least 3 hours before bed
Caveats
Not abstinence; tolerated within strict bounds
Certainty
explicit
mild caution

AlcoholSleepLongevity

Specific dose, frequency, and timing rules around alcohol

Sources

#661: Dr. Peter Attia — The Science and Art of Longevity, Optimizing Protein, Alcohol Rules, Lessons from Glucose Monitoring with CGMs, Boosting Your VO2 Max, Preventing Alzheimer's Disease, Early Cancer Detection, How to Use DEXA Scans, Nature's Longevity Drug, and More