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It makes people intoxicated
Alcohol affects every organ in the body. Alcohol speeds through the body and is rapidly absorbed by the stomach and small intestine and into the bloodstream.
Alcohol is metabolized in the liver. However, the liver can only metabolize a small amount of alcohol at a time, leaving the excess alcohol to circulate throughout the body. The intensity of the effect on the body is related to the amount drunk and the time period over which it is consumed, the size of the person, the gender of the drinker, and whether or not the person has developed tolerance for alcohol.
Contrary to common myth, not even men and women of the same height and weight experience the same effects from consuming identical amounts of alcohol.
Women are affected by alcohol more rapidly because they tend to have a higher proportion of body fat than men. As fat cannot absorb alcohol, it is concentrated at higher levels in the blood. Women also have less of a gastric or stomach enzyme (dehydrogenase) that metabolizes or breaks down alcohol before it enters the bloodstream. Because of this, women absorb up to nearly 30% more alcohol into their bloodstream than men of the same height and weight who drink the same amount of alcohol.
Women are also usually shorter and lighter than men, further concentrating alcohol in their blood. Therefore, when women of average size consume one drink, it will have almost the same effect as two drinks do for the average-size man. If women eat little or skip food entirely, that compounds the effects of drinking alcohol
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Hormone changes during the menstrual cycle can also affect alcohol metabolism adversely, increasing the impact of alcohol.
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