Dr. Oz Weighs in on the Administration’s New Alcohol Guidelines

“You shouldn’t have it for breakfast, unless you’re partying with your friends.”

Reporter: Sir, it’s been pretty definitively determined by the medical establishment that drinking alcohol is a health risk regardless of the amount. You don’t appear to agree with that finding, and instead have said that drinking alcohol is okay as long as it’s in a “social” or “celebratory” setting. Can you expand on that?

Dr. Mehmet Oz: Sure, Brian.

Reporter: It’s Terry.

Dr. Oz: Sorry. Timmy, let me just say this. You look around the world and everybody drinks, right? Even those people in so-called “blue zones”, where everybody lives to be, like, 104 — booze is part of their diet. God invented grapes for a reason. We’re supposed to ferment them and then party like it’s 1999.

It’s well-established that socialization makes you live longer. So if you need to take a drink or three to work up the nerve to go out to a bar and get shot down by every hottie in the place, then that’s good for you. That’s healthy.

You’re socializing with friends, and that will counteract the damage five shots of Cuervo are going to do to your body.