Well , then you should definitely be aware of the data showing that even just one bout one bout of so called binge drinking , which is 5 to 6 drinks in a given night or half day in a 12 hour period . One bout of 5 to 6 drinks . If you're a woman or you're a man greatly increases both the likelihood of mutations in the embryo that would result from a fertilization .
But I do realize that a lot of people enjoy alcohol . And so it's that two drinks per week limit that really sets the upper limit and threshold beyond which you start running into issues with cellular mutation , you start running into issues of oxidative stress , greatly increase cancer risk , in particular , breast cancer risk , all that's covered in the alcohol episode that we did . You can find it Huberman lab dot com and time stamped .
And so I don't miss it and that's me . But I do realize that a lot of people enjoy alcohol . And so it's that two drinks per week limit that really sets the upper limit and threshold beyond which you start running into issues with cellular mutation , you start running into issues of oxidative stress , greatly increase cancer risk , in particular , breast cancer risk , all that's covered in the alcohol episode that we did .
And again , these episodes are one night of consuming 5 to 6 drinks . Now , another important thing to remember in this context is that the negative effects of consuming five or six drinks in a given night extend over many weeks following the ingestion of that alcohol . If you're a male , what that means is , that's going to impact the quality of your sperm and greatly decrease the likelihood of successful fertilization and or healthy pregnancy over the period of that entire spermatogenesis window , which is as we talked about before 60 to 90 days , right , 60 to generate the sperm .
That's right . Two drinks per week total . And that's the level that you really should consider if you're a drinker , if you're somebody who's trying to conceive .
