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[quote=Anonymous][quote] What happens when you drink alcohol

When you drink alcohol, you don’t digest alcohol. It passes quickly into your bloodstream and travels to every part of your body. Alcohol affects your brain first, then your kidneys, lungs and liver. The effect on your body depends on your age, gender, weight and the type of alcohol.…

… Alcohol affects women more quickly than men. Women are usually smaller and weigh less than men, and have less tissue to absorb alcohol.

A woman’s body has more fat and less water than a man’s body. If a man and woman are the same size and drink the same amount, the alcohol is stronger in the woman's blood than in the man’s. The woman will get drunk more quickly and feel the effects for longer.

Alcohol also stays in women’s blood for longer. They have lower levels of the enzyme that breaks down alcohol.

Women feel the effects of alcohol more quickly before a period and during ovulation. The contraceptive pill can have the opposite effect – it takes longer for alcohol to leave the body. A woman in this situation might drink more than she realises before she feels the effects…

…When alcohol enters your bloodstream, it widens your blood vessels. This causes:

blushing, as there is a greater flow of blood to the skin surface
a temporary feeling of warmth
heat loss and a rapid decrease in body temperature
a drop in blood pressure[/quote]

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/what-happens-when-you-drink-alcohol[/quote]

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