Why aren't people considering that the low life expectancy in medieval times might have also been due to how people started drinking ale ever since they were toddlers?
>>18448777Was the ale because of the bad water quality or they just enjoyed boozing?
>>18448777People in the middle ages lived about as long as low-income people do now. The only reason the "average life expectancy" was in the mid-30s was that half of people died in infancy due to the lack of medical care. If one person dies at age 0 and a second person dies at age 70, the average lifespan between the two of them is 35 years.
>>18448896If we banned hospital births, and people simply knew about germs and hygiene, infant mortality would drop dramatically. People lived shorter lives purely because of ignorance about basic cleanliness.
>>18448777Because the risk of getting alcohol poisoning from the (relative to modern alcohol) weak beer they were brewing is non-existent compared to dying from cholera, polio, smallpox or some random infection?
>>18448777If you factor in abortion as infant mortality, the modern Era has equal life expectancy to medieval times.
Beer kept them alive longer.
>>18448909>banned hospital birthsHoly BASED
>>18448781The former, but it was still alcohol
