To remind you, if you want to affect alcohol mortality you have to intervene around price, availability, advertising

Troubles me Def some things we may not fully understand However (obviously) if we forget policy about the things we do understand we will be worse off

everyone gets excited about this cool science but forgets about policy that will make way more difference (but not make any shareholders rich)

Generational and cohort effects Microbiome Allostatic load and inflammation Interesting on cancer biology Risk Factors in proportion and what we know - tobacco, obesity alcohol, lack of exercise

Best Eurovision act for ages (Ever) How they didn't win I'll never know

Definition of success in "prevention" = nothing happens ??

I'm kind of surprised it was given the air time by @nihr.bsky.social given the breadth of quality research output that might have been featured

As my old boss once said: We know how to find heavy drinking chain smoking overweight ppl Health check as we do it, isn't it And when you find them the chance they will do a health check is slim (If only the *actual sci advisory committee with *actual expertise had been asked)

I'll not take that bet

Oh I'm sure we were prescribing statins well before health checks existed I guess h checks are pretty good at finding (mainly affluent) ppl with cvd risk So is standard primary care