Just a spoonful of syrah helps the medicine go down...

So I got to chat to the doc, liver specialist Dr Jonathan Mitchell, live on air this morning. He told me I drink too much, and he told me that I was technically a binge drinker.
It's always a bit of an eye-opener, not least coming from a consultant hepatologist. However, I wasn't really surprised.
It's all very well having these limits, but they're a bit arbitrary. One size does not fit all, as far as the human body is concerned... and, as you all know, the actress said to the bishop. And actually Dr Jon said that the important thing was to make sure that if you have had one over the eight (units, not pints, clearly) that you take a day or two off to give your liver a rest.
He also said that it was sound advice to take everything in moderation.
As I said on the show, I am probably not going to reduce the amount I drink. I am comfortable with it and actually enjoy the odd 'binge', as the medics term it.
But what I will make more of an effort to do is to give my liver some recovery time. So it's out with hair of the dog and in with cold turkey - not so terribly difficult...