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If you are OK with a sub-optimal performance, drink. These are probably small effects we are seeing anyway. But be aware you are making a choice and there is a lot we still don't understand about how alcohol interacts with our bodies.
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I personally think it’s a trade off.
I had a buddy in the NZ forces, Christian guy, refused to drink. Needless to say he didn't get along with his piers too well and was subsequently asked to leave.
Honestly I am tighter with my drinking buddies then I am with my non drinking buddies.
"...Team spirit starts at the bottom of a bottle...".
The study was based on 6 drinks not the 2-3 you'd have with your mates during SFQC Phase III + VI on a quite Saturday night.
The most interesting comment I've heard on this topic was from an SF guy
"I will not trust a guy on my team until I have seen him drunk."
(QPs can testify if this is true or not).
I guess you see the real person.
Loud Drink, Angry Drunk, Moronic Drunk, Fighting Drunk.
Alcohol is a social/relational lubricant, are the effects of the 1 x beer at the end of the day in the team room and the 2-3 at the Saturday Team BBQ at the 18Zs house really going to affect you that much?
I wonder if the old 90/10 rule applies. It takes 90% of the energy to get 90% of the results. It then takes 90% of the energy again to get that last 10%. The return on investment to get that last 10% is often not worth the required input.
The loss of half dozen beers a week might increase your performance by 5% but there goes the social, there goes the relaxation; possibly more unhealthy then the beer in moderation. Scientific Research by definition tends to fail to look at the big picture.
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