Exercising after a night out drinking could decrease your risk of an early death. A recent study found that while drinking alcohol can decrease your lifespan overall, supplementing it with physical fitness could keep your risk in check. “Not surprisingly, they found that drinking itself is linked to higher rates of early death from any cause, as well as death from cancer. And the more alcohol is consumed, the higher the risk of early death. But when Stamatakis layered in the amount of exercise people reported, he found that only those who weren’t physically active—meaning they did not meet the recommended 150 minutes of moderate-to-intense exercise a week—showed similar patterns of higher mortality. Among those who reported getting the recommended amounts of activity, their death rates were slightly lower as long as they drank with recommended guidelines (one to two drinks per day). People who drank beyond these amounts, at levels considered dangerous for their health, showed higher rates of death from any cause or cancer regardless of how much they exercised.” But this finding does not mean you can drink as much as you want just because you exercise regularly. The lead researcher cautioned that drinking in excess leads to many other health problems that can increase your risk for death.