Contents:
- Medical Video: What happens when you drink alcohol on an empty stomach?
- Effect of drinking alcohol before eating
- 1. Get drunk faster
- 2. You eat more afterwards
Medical Video: What happens when you drink alcohol on an empty stomach?
Many people assume that beer or other alcoholic drinks are not good for health. In fact, if you know the rules are safe for consuming alcoholic beverages, you can benefit the body. Well, one of the rules that you should pay attention to is not to drink alcohol when your stomach is still empty. What will happen if you drink alcohol before eating?
Effect of drinking alcohol before eating
Before seeing what effects might occur if you drink alcohol before eating, you must first know how the effects of drinking alcohol for the body. When drinking alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, vodka, and body whiskey will digest it until alcohol enters the bloodstream.
Because it is already in your blood, alcohol will also be distributed throughout the body. Including the brain, stomach, kidneys, lungs, and liver (liver). This process usually does not take long. About a minute, 20 percent of the alcohol you drink can enter the brain and affect human cognitive function.
So what will happen if you drink alcohol before eating? Here is the full explanation.
1. Get drunk faster
Everyone has a different tolerance for alcohol. Some are drunk when they only drink a few sips of beer. There are also those who have drunk a full bottle of beer that has no effect. This is because a person's metabolic rate is certainly different from the others.
However, if you drink alcohol on an empty stomach or have not eaten, you are guaranteed to be drunk faster than if you drink alcohol after eating. Because, if there are other foods and nutrients that must be absorbed by the digestive system, alcohol will not be directly digested and enter your blood.
Whereas if you haven't eaten, the alcohol you drink will be absorbed faster and flowed throughout the body. As a result, the faster and the more alcohol levels that enter the brain. You also get drunk faster than usual.
2. You eat more afterwards
Besides being drunk faster, drinking alcohol before eating can also have an effect on your weight. How can? Apparently according to various studies, drinking alcohol on an empty stomach will actually make you eat more afterwards.
A study in the Obesity journal in 2015 revealed that people who drink alcohol before eating end up eating seven percent more than people who don't drink before eating.
Another study published in the journal Physiology & Behavior proved something similar. The study participants who drank red wine (red wine) before eating it turns out to be eating up to 25 percent more.
So be careful if you are accustomed to drinking alcohol before eating. You might even eat more. This certainly risks increasing your weight. Therefore, make it a habit to consume alcoholic beverages after eating, after your stomach is filled with important food and nutrients.
