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For your heart health, how often you drink is actually more important than how much you're drinking overall.
Studies often focus on total volume, but this research found that 'good' cholesterol (HDL-C) levels are driven specifically by how often you drink. Frequent, low-dose drinking improves these levels, while infrequent 'binge' drinking actually lowers them—even if the total weekly alcohol intake is exactly the same.