Why does alcohol make us drunk?

Alcohol is nothing bad. It gives you the bravery to chat with a guy at the bar, or help you "get excited" to sway, sway freely, comfortably in public.

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But from the brave, pleasant state above, you quickly realize that people are grumbling "go home, get drunk". If you drink a cup of wine to give you a refreshing, pleasant feeling, why do 6 cups drink make you cower in the back seat of a taxi, or perform odd actions?

The answer lies in the nature of alcohol . Or more precisely, in ethanol , an essential component of alcohol. Here's how alcohol makes you drunk.

When you drink alcohol, dissolved ethanol-in-water in alcohol moves freely in your body . After it enters your digestive system, it has a trip in your bloodstream, passing through the cell membrane and "walking" through the heart. It especially likes to wander in the brain, where it causes the central nervous system to be inhibited. When in the brain, ethanol wanders, releasing dopamine that feels pleasant and binds to nerve receptors.

Among these receptors, ethanol will specifically bind to glutamate , a neurotransmitter that normally stimulates neurons. Ethanol does not allow glutamate to function and this makes the brain slow to respond to stimuli. Ethanol also binds to gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) . Unlike the association with glutamate, ethanol activates GABA receptors. These receptors make us feel calm and sleepy, so the functioning of the brain is even slower. Of course, the level of intoxication depends on other factors as well. Sex, age, weight - even the foods you have eaten - all have a role in alcohol making you drunk.

At this point, you can no longer control your body

Finally, alcohol is metabolized by enzymes in the liver at a rate of about 29ml of liquid per hour, but this process in the long term can be harmful to organs in the body. Alcohol is also excreted by the kidneys as urine, or exhaled by the lungs. Ethanol molecules can even penetrate the skin. Of course it can also come out of your body in a more violent way: vomiting.

About 1 liter of strong alcohol or 4 bottles of wine - can seriously impair brain function, making it impossible for the brain to send vital signals to the body, such as unable to control breathing and heart rate. People who die from alcohol poisoning (or acute poisoning), are because they drink and go out, and their brains do not "remind" the organs in the body to function and breathe. Is there any other reason why a person must die of alcohol? That's when they vomit, they breathe in vomit and basically, they are "suffocated", drowning in their own vomit.

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