The Truth About Alcohol is a 2016 English-language Documentary motion picture. Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim, an emergency room physician at St. Mary's Hospital in London, admits he likes an occasional alcoholic drink, despite ing his fair share of alcohol related health issues in his work. With the federal government's new guidelines of no than fourteen units of alcohol a week as being low risk for both men and women, he goes on a quest to find out what effect consuming alcohol truly does have on humans. He himself gets measured to if his alcohol consumption in a typical week in his life is within that guideline, and what effect the drinking over his lifetime has had thus far on the health of his liver, the organ most negatively affected by alcohol. He goes to a local pub to conduct an experiment on the short term effect of alcohol on the mind, such as on cognitive ability. Without the subjects touching a drop of alcohol, he then tries to answer the question of why certain people get drunk faster than others. Beyond the calories contained in alcohol, he then looks at if alcohol has an affect on potential weight gain by making people eat . Unscientifically, he delves into the science of how lining one's stomach with food helps absorb alcohol readily. He next looks into the common notion that moderate amounts of red wine consumption is heart healthy, as n by what is known as the French paradox, the French who have an uncommonly low rate of heart disease despite a diet high in saturated fat. He goes to a sleep clinic to if the myth that alcohol helps one sleep is true. Heading to a brewery, he tests various hangover remedies on brewery staff who've had a piss-up. Associated, he s if one type of alcoholic beverage is apt to produce hangovers than another. Finally, he speaks to Prof. Dame Sally Davies, the country's Chief Medical Health Officer, about the evidence that led to the implementation of the most recent guidelines. Written by Huggo. The truth about alcohol features Javid Abdelmoneim, Matthew Mitchell, Gautam Mehta, Antony Moss, Paul Huff, Celia Morgan and Sally Davies. It was released on 26th May 2016.