Old And Busted: So many things. Too many things to even list, including using the phrase “old and busted.”
The New HOTNESS: What X Thing That You Eat Or Drink Does To Your Body In X Amount Of Time
We’ve already seen the effect Coke and Diet Coke have on your bod and now, thanks to Alcohol Gifts, which I can assume is an online marketplace to buy dildos, we have a infographic of what beer does to your body (inside and out) in the first 24 hours after consumption.
In case that print is too small for your precious eyes. Here is a break out.
1. In The First 5 minutes: Within minutes of taking a sip the alcohol travels to your stomach where it is absorbed into your bloodstream, it then travels all over your body including to your brain and around your muscles.
2. 10 minutes: Your body see’s the alcohol as a poison, it doesn’t want to store it and aims to break it down and get rid of it as quickly as possible.
3. 15 minutes: Your stomach now is trying to breakdown and remove the alcohol, it’s now produced the enzyme ‘Alcohol dehydrogenase’ which converts the alcohol into chemicals including Acetaldehyde (which is quite toxic and is a big contributing factor to your hangover the next day), then into acetic acid and finally fatty acids and water (the final two the body likes). This then sobers you up, however if you drink more than your liver can deal with you will become drunk.
4. 20 minutes: You generally start to feel the alcohol affecting you after 20 minutes, this includes a light head, feelings of happiness or other emotions
4. 45 minutes: Between this time and 90 minutes is when the alcohol level will peak in your blood (source)
5. >60 Minutes: You’ll likely need to go to the toilet, as alcohol is a diuretic the kidneys direct drink directly to the bladder, this causes you to need the toilet more often and dehydrates you. If you stop drinking you’re likely to feel sleepy or crash out, although you’ll get to sleep quickly, due to dehydration your quality of sleep is not good.
7. 12-24 hours: When you awake you’ll be likely feel one of the many symptoms of a hangover such as headaches, dizziness, thirst, paleness and tremors, most of which are caused by dehydration. Your body will still be trying to deal with any excess alcohol in your system.
Weird…there’s no mention of why it caused me to bang so many questionable chicks in my 20s. Still going to blame it on the beer, though. Only seems right.