Moderate drinking is good for you Venus since you do not need to worry about drug alcohol interaction. It is good just as condoms as needed and weight bearing exercise and a calcium rich diet are good for you. There is no question about the protective benefit of all those things.

A clearly bad thing is prolonged sitting. It leads to reduced longevity, back pain, obesity, bad posture, menstrual cramps. Human bodies are not supposed to be subjected to pproloned sitting. It is a deadly modern thing. Research is clear. And convincing.

Yet, prolonged siitting is clearly not regarded as a vice. Quite the opposite, children are praised for their ability to sit still I.n class.

Alcohol consumption is regarded by many in. Ameri,ca as a vice, due. To the country's puritan beginnings. I remembed from my class in American legal history taught by the leading researcher Lawrence Friedman, that abstaining puritans looked down on catholic Italian immigrants who consumed alcohol, had many more children and were often loud and merry. Puritan values still permeate our life. It is important to be aware of that.

I choose to go by evidence-based conclusions hence I will limit sitting and strive. To drinka glass of red wine daily (I do not do that yet but I will make an effort) and finally get my act together and go on the treadmill on most days of the week.

Bipolar is a very costly illness. Besides the obvious cost of suicide which is even more frequent than in schizophrenia, there are the cost of drugs, the burden of side effects that include diabetes which in itself is a costly illnesss, the frustration of increased weight which is the most maligned side effect of drugs, the high cost of manic spending.

If a bipolar patient is forced to abstain from alcohol due to the potential of negative drug interactions, it just adds to the list of costs. Such patient cannot use the protective benefit and enjoy the social aspect of alcohol. That is purely a cost one sometimes has to bear, not any type of moral achievent or superior personal quality or anything.

My maternal grandmother would have been 101 today. She did not drink alcohol and did not drink or eat dairy. Consistent with those behaviors she had Alzheimer's and osteoporosis in late life. I will try to improve my chances of not getting these diseases by consuming appropriate amounts of alcohol as well as consuming lots of dairy. I understand that a positive outcome is not guaranteed but at least I will do what I. Can.

On Abilify with alcohol. When I planned to add a daily glass of wine to my list of. Wellness tools, I ran it by my GP. She approved but warned that alcohol might weaken the AD effect of Abilify which I was considering taking (but ended up not using). So my understanding is that Abilify+alcohol is not dangerous the way benzos+alcohol can be, it is just less potent. And even then, only the AD aspect of Abilify is weakened while the AP aspect stays put - that was my understanding.

Giving up coffee which is sometimes advised for bp is another cost since coffee consumption is correlated with positive health outcomes although it can be correlation without causation, but still.

The need to stick to a regular sleep schedule and avoid east-west travel as conventionally recommended to prevent episodes are also costs, because bp patients who heed this advice miss out on the fun that other people take for granted.