Announcing the Wine + Health podcast

Drinks Insider has a spinoff!

Two new Drinks Insider episodes dropped today. The first is an interview with Professor David Nutt, the drug expert who’s developed a functional drink and brought it to market.

The second is something different — the first in the Drinks Insider’s Wine + Health series.

Introducing Wine + Health

This is going to be an occasional podcast series, focusing on alcohol and health. Although I’ve called the podcast Wine + Health, it will focus on alcohol in general. Topics I’ll be tackling include:

• What we know and don’t know about the impact of alcohol on health (both good and bad news)

• How this information is being used to shape policy

• The rise of the anti-alcohol movement

• Are there really 76 additives in wine?

These episodes won’t appear regularly, for the simple reason that it takes a lot of time and trust to get doctors and researchers to speak on the record about alcohol.

The first episode has just dropped

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