Drinking past a. One is to take a break from drinking altogether. In time your tolerance level will return to its normal level. Another option is to drink less if you do choose to drink. If someone has two drinks each time they drink, they will never raise their tolerance level, even if they have two drinks every night.
When your body expects to intake a drug like alcohol, it speeds up processes to accommodate it. If your body gets used to having three beers at a bonfire in your back yard once a week during the summer, it will start to anticipate that amount of intoxication even before you pop the tab. While it is a good idea to be aware of alcohol consumption, it is very important to understand that many factors contribute to blood alcohol content or BAC.
Factors that affect BAC include:. Factors that affect BAC include: Gender — Women do not have as much of the enzyme dehydrogenase, which breaks down alcohol in the stomach. Additionally, women tend to have a higher percentage of body fat and a lower percentage of water. For these reasons, women tend to have higher BAC levels than men drinking the same amount. Typically, individuals of Asian or Native American descent show reduced levels of alcohol dehydrogenase, meaning that alcohol will remain in the blood longer and high concentrations can build up faster.
Males and females react to alcohol differently. Women tend to be smaller than men, and get intoxicated faster. Also, women tend to have a higher percentage of body fat, which reduces the percentage of lean body mass that can distribute the concentration of alcohol. Smaller stature individuals will become impaired quicker. Alcohol can be distributed throughout the body via the circulatory system, and enters most tissues except bone and fat adipose tissue.
Body composition is important, because as the percentage of body fat increases, the resulting concentration of alcohol in the lean tissues of the body is proportionally higher. Food in the stomach will slow the absorption of alcohol into the bloodstream and delay impairment. The type of food ingested carbohydrate, fat, protein has not been shown to have a measurable influence on BAC.
However, we do know that larger the meals, and closer proximity to time of drinking, can lower the peak blood alcohol concentration.
This could simply be the result of the food obstructing the alcohol from entering the bloodstream, or because the food will inhibit the stomach from emptying into the small intestine.
Alcohol in the bloodstream causes the pituitary gland in the brain to block the creation of vasopressin. This causes the kidneys to send water directly to the bladder rather than reabsorbing filtered water into the bloodstream. This diuretic effect increases as the blood alcohol content increases, and can lead to dehydration. Studies have shown that drinking mL of alcoholic beverage causes the body to expel between — mL resulting in the body releasing more than just liquid being consumed.
Carbonation speeds up absorption. Alcohol mixed with carbonated beverages such as Coca-Cola or tonic water will be absorbed more quickly into the bloodstream. This is also true for champagne and wine coolers.
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