How long could you live on just beer?

Question

no water or food, just beer

Answer 1

A person who simply drank beer would become extremely dehydrated after a few days, because beer acts as a diuretic, meaning that it makes a person urinate more frequently. In addition, the alcohol would make the liver less efficient, delivering less nutrients to the bloodstream. The negative effects on the liver would eventually find their way into the kidneys, because of the close, integral relationship with the hepatic and renal systems. If I had to take a guess at a length of time, though, I'd imagine that a reasonably healthy person might last a maximum of 4-6 months on a diet of nothing but beer, but probably less for an older person.

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Answer 2

Well, I know you can only live less than a week without any water, but food you can live without for a couple to a few weeks. I guess it really depends on how much fat and or muscle you have, since if you don't eat, your body breaks down your fat and muscle tissue and uses it for energy. Good beer has a small amount of protein, but basically that is it, as far as I know. The calories would provide you with energy....I guess. But, since alcohol is a diuretic, it causes you to piss out not just whatever beer or alcohol you're drinking, but also other water in your body. So, if you kept yourself from taking a piss all the time, you might be okay. I say this from what I remember from Biology my sophomore year in high school in like 1995: when you drink a nutritious beverage for instance, the nutrients go into your blood stream and eventually the liquid that your body decides to "discard" goes to your bladder or whatever. If you hold it in and don't go to the bathroom, that liquid just continues to "cycle." Eventually, you WILL have to go. You can't hold it in forever. But, I suppose the longer you hold it in, the more water that is in the beer, once all the alcohol has been metabolized, the more "hydrated" you will remain. But, that is just a theory.

Answer 3

The fatter you are the longer you can live with just water not food. The range is from 2-6 weeks with plenty of water. Beer though would give you less time because of the alcahol in it so the range is probably something like 1-4 weeks.

Answer 4

At least 17 years. Look at Homer Simpson. Oh, no he also eats doughnuts.
One way to find out go to an AA meeting. My guess you can live quite a while. By the looks of the guys in the meeting I just went to. They all looked like they were at least 900 years old.

Answer 5

dont know yet still living on beer

Answer 6

5 minutes.

Answer 7

depends, is it light or dark beer?

Answer 8

55 days then you are dead.
Try it out.

Answer 9

well you should go for it and let me know what happens

Answer 10

not long!