Just One Alcoholic Drink Per Day Can Shrink Your Brain, Says Study That Forgot to Measure Alcohol’s Effects on Other Body Parts (Ahem)

Drinking has a lot of downsides. There are hangovers, for starters. Dehydration. Whiskey dick. But a new study has uncovered another concerning side effect of alcohol: brain shrinkage.

The research, which was published in the journal Nature, studied data from 36,000 people in the UK and involved self-reports of alcohol consumption along with MRI brain scans. The results…