How does Alcohol Work? When you consume an alcoholic beverage, the alcohol (ethanol) makes its way to your stomach where around 20-25% of it gets absorbed into your bloodstream immediately. The rest of it continues to your small intestine where it is absorbed by the bloodstream. Once it’s in your bloodstream, the alcohol slowly heads toward to your liver where it is metabolized (broken down). As the all-powerful Wikipedia tells us, “Alcohol is metabolized by a normal liver at the rate of about one ounce (one shot, a normal beer, a regular-sized glass of wine) every 90 minutes.” Many different factors affect this rate – like low body fat percentage (lower the body fat, lower the blood alcohol level) and gender (women typically process alcohol slower than men). Any amount consumed over that doesn’t get processed immediately, and instead saturates your blood until your liver can process the excess alcohol. Think of ...
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