Alcohol intake
units / week
Dose-dependent endocrine and decision disruptor.
Heavy use lowers T, fragments sleep, and taxes next-day risk and status behavior. Light use is entangled with sociability and class. Do not draw a straight line from 'a drink' to leadership.
Also called ethanol.
Incident edges
MECHANISM
Review · Moderate
Alcohol intake→Testosterone
Heavy drinking is an HPG intervention. A glass of wine is not a T protocol in reverse.
MECHANISM
Review · High confidence
Alcohol intake→Sleep duration and regularity
Alcohol is a sleep toxin with a sedative costume. It sits upstream of the sleep→T and sleep→cortisol arrows.