2006-06-29 14:31:59 · 15 answers · asked by CocoBrown62 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Liquor makes you drunk because alcohol is a toxin/poison. As a poison, it attacks various parts of the brain and such just as other types of poisons paralyze the heart or lungs.
2006-06-29 14:36:58 · answer #1 · answered by PALADIN 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Often after lots of alcohol has been consumed, it is possible to get the sense that the room is spinning, technically called positional alcohol nystagmus. Although motor areas of the brain are usually heavily affected at this time, it is not directly the brain which is responsible here; alcohol has affected the organs responsible for balance, present in the ears. Balance in the body is monitored principally by two systems: the semicircular canals, and the utricle and saccule pair. Inside both of these is a flexible blob called a cupola, which moves when the body moves. This brushes against hairs in the ear, creating nerve impulses that travel through the 8th Cranial Nerve in to the brain. However, when alcohol gets in to the bloodstream it distorts the shape of the cupola, causing it to keep pressing on to the hairs. These 'fake' nerve impulse tell your brain that the body is rotating, causing disorientation and making the eyes spin round to compensate. When this wears off (usually taking until the following morning) the brain has adjusted to the spinning, and interprets not spinning as spinning in the opposite direction causing further disorientation This is often a common symptom of the hangover.
2006-06-29 14:35:06 · answer #2 · answered by moved 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
liquor has a higher alcohol content.
just think,
one beer = one shot = one glass of wine
the oz. may vary, but the amount of alcohol in the beverage makes the difference.
2006-06-29 14:39:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alcohol!
2006-06-29 14:34:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
alcohol thins the blood thinner blood has less o2 in which makes you feel drunk also it floats in the water which is in your body and is absorbed quicker which is you feel dry mouth after drinking you are dehydrated
2006-06-29 14:38:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever workes out and felt the burn? that burn is Lactic Acid. your body cells make that when there is no oxygen. plant cells do the same thing, except they make our friend alcohol. why it makes you drunk, i dont know
2006-06-29 14:35:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The alcohol is fermented in your liver, producing toxins. they then affect your brain, causing you to temporarily lose control of certain functions.
2006-06-29 14:37:30 · answer #7 · answered by surfingpookie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of them, just vary how fast and how will be the hang over
2006-06-29 15:39:22 · answer #8 · answered by GAV 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an alchoholic drink... and alchohol makes you drunk...
2006-06-29 14:33:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It contains ALCOHOL!
2006-06-29 14:44:16 · answer #10 · answered by Andora 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋