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Why Alcohol Makes You Pee More

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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.

 

By MissingMuse

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