Why Alcohol Makes You Pee More [Published]
StephenPBarrett
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If you're like me you like to drink alcohol from time to time and have noticed that when you do, whether it be hard liquor or booze you always end up peeing a lot more than normal. Here is an informative explaining why it is that when having a good time with alcohol you seem to visit the water closet more often.
The fact of the matter is this: alcohol is a diuretic. Essentially for every bit of alcohol that your kidney does a double take. In fact for every 1g of alcohol that you intake you pee an extra 10ml. That's a lot!
This explanation works fine for casual drinkers (drinking a few to be sociable) but this is Totse and I'm sure plenty of you are like me and drink for what I consider the right reason: to get drunk. This means drinking a substantial amount of alcohol in a short period of time. When you do this the there is that very obvious effect added to the previously mentioned: you're drinking a lot. If you were to drink the equivalent in say water or soda you would pee a lot then too but still not as much because of alcohol being a diuretic.
You might think that excreting so much urine would help with the hangover in the morning but this is not so. Hangovers are essentially just you being very dehydrated so since you're peeing so much more instead of helping it worsens the hangover. What can you do though? Try to hold it in? Good luck!
tl:dr Alcohol makes you pee more because it is a diuretic and because when you drink it you ingest a lot of liquid which has to be removed by peeing which makes your hangover worse.
The fact of the matter is this: alcohol is a diuretic. Essentially for every bit of alcohol that your kidney does a double take. In fact for every 1g of alcohol that you intake you pee an extra 10ml. That's a lot!
This explanation works fine for casual drinkers (drinking a few to be sociable) but this is Totse and I'm sure plenty of you are like me and drink for what I consider the right reason: to get drunk. This means drinking a substantial amount of alcohol in a short period of time. When you do this the there is that very obvious effect added to the previously mentioned: you're drinking a lot. If you were to drink the equivalent in say water or soda you would pee a lot then too but still not as much because of alcohol being a diuretic.
You might think that excreting so much urine would help with the hangover in the morning but this is not so. Hangovers are essentially just you being very dehydrated so since you're peeing so much more instead of helping it worsens the hangover. What can you do though? Try to hold it in? Good luck!
tl:dr Alcohol makes you pee more because it is a diuretic and because when you drink it you ingest a lot of liquid which has to be removed by peeing which makes your hangover worse.
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Hangovers are also due to the liver running out of the enzyme that helps metabolize alcohol and the "toxins" in the alcohol. Eggs happen to have this protein which is why eggs are a wonderful hangover food.
So in short: Drink a ton of water during drinking and before you go to sleep. Drink more water in the morning and eat eggs to alleviate any hangover that might happen.
And remember kids: the clearer the alcohol, the less likely a hangover will happen. Darker alcohol has more "toxins" than clear alcohol which is closer to pure ethanol.
Then how come if I drink a bottle of Vodka, I'll have the shittiest hangover ever in the morning? Compared to a bunch of beer or cider, where I wont really have much of a hangover at all.
Because as requested by the thread OP I changed it to a guide
during the great depression, alcohol was prohibited bec of its uninhibitive properties on females, leeding to an escalation of male predative behaviour.
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