Sarah Wakeman

So that's actually why for many women, they will get more sort of drunk or more of an effect from alcohol at a lower level than men because women have more body fat than men.

But that's going to depend on you as an individual.

If you have more body fat, you're going to have a different impact.

So alcohol gets in your bloodstream.

Alcohol can instantly cross across what we call your blood-brain barrier.

So it impacts your brain instantly.

And that's where you feel the initially pleasurable effects for many people of feeling a little relaxed, feeling more social, feeling a little bit less anxiety.

If you keep drinking and that level keeps going up, then you start having impaired judgment.

You might have lack of motor coordination.

So we've all seen this in

Many people have probably experienced it.

You know, you may be stumbling, not able to drive safely.

You're not going to make the same decisions you would make if you weren't drinking.

And then if you keep drinking, then you get, you can actually lose consciousness.

So pass out.

And people have experienced that.

Your body is going to try to break down alcohol as quickly as it's able to.

Like anything, we want to kind of excrete any abnormality and get back to our normal functioning.

And so that process happens mostly in your liver, which is why the liver is so sensitive to alcohol.

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