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Hair Loss and Prostate Cancer
If you are getting bald spots on the top of your head and your hair is thinning before 30, take heart that you have a 45% chance of getting prostate cancer as you age. Men with prostate cancer get drugs to reduce testosterone.
Alcohol may prevent stokes
Non-smokers who drink moderately are 40% less likely to have a stroke. This means at most two glasses of small wine. If you also smoke you lose all the benefit. Smoking causes thickening and clotting of blood while alcohol thins the blood.
Source: Cambridge Univ., Yangmei Li