What happens to your body when you drink too much liquor?

Answer 1

Alcoholism
Physical Effects of Alcohol
Alcohol, also known in the medical field as ethanol, is a significant influencing drug impacting human behavior and body functions in a variety of ways. Modern research has produced intriguing documentation stating that medicinal and low alcohol consumption may actually have a level of benefit to the body. In fact, many medications contain some degree of alcohol to calm the nerves and to preserve the integrity of the ingredients.

Interestingly, much research and effort has gone into understanding the relationship between the actual physical effects and the expected effects of alcohol consumption. For instance, it has been noted that people can feel euphoric and giddy just by thinking about going to the bar after work starting the chemical process in the brain to send out hormone messengers even before a drink is actually consumed. It causes a physical reaction to occur prior to the body being exposed to the brew. This is due, in part, to a memory of past episodes where drinking, excitement and a lowering of inhibitions are associated with a really good time. The anticipation of getting loaded is sometimes enough to make the body feel as though it truly is slightly tipsy.


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Alcohol induced physical effects will vary from person to person depending on many factors such as body weight, age, gender, amount consumed, time frame in which alcohol was consumed and level of tolerance to the ethanol. Overall, alcohol acts as a depressant on the central nervous system causing a breakdown of message transmission between the brain and the body. Body functions and responses begin to slow down and reflexes become lax and awkward. With one drink there is a mild sense of relaxation, pleasure and sometimes elation with a decrease in judgment while heart and breathing patterns increase. A little bit more may result in body systems being sedated, impaired coordination, decrease in muscle strength, dulling of reactions and alertness, patience level declines and anxiety and depression increase. Up the intake even more and the body may begin to retaliate with vomiting in an attempt to eliminate the internal alcohol level before it becomes dangerous. At this point slurred speech, staggering and falling usually occur. As the body approaches the point of toxic blood alcohol levels the person is shut down as means of self-preservation. A non-responsive stupor with loss of consciousness can take place with an effect similar to that of anesthesia received for surgery. If the blood alcohol is too great, the individual may stop breathing and death is the end resu

Answer 2

Of course it's OK to never drink.There are recovering alcoholics and tea-totalers who never drink all the time. But it's also OK to limit the amount that you do drink .You could drink every single day of your life and never suffer an adverse effect if you don't get drunk. In fact, it's highly encouraged to drink one glass of red-wine daily for its strong antioxidants; it helps everything from your cardio-vascular system to your skin (and peace of mind!). There are other studies that show one beer a day to be beneficial. If you limited yourself to a few (2-3) drinks on the weekends and nights out, you really wouldn't have a problem. I rarely drink more than one or two when I go out, if at all. I prefer to be the designated driver, and then I know, 100%, that I will not be the cause of a drunk-driving accident. I do allow myself the occassional wild night, but those are few and far between, and always with another DD.

Answer 3

It isn't one thing for sure. It attacks your whole body. Falls and auto accidents are common. Most adults with broken bones are alcoholics. Physically it messes you up from head to toe, partly due to malnutrition. You can go into withdrawals, which are painful and life-threatening. Opiate withdrawal won't kill you, but alcohol withdrawal might. It can cause "the shakes," a highly unpleasant shaking of your body. Your legs may shake so badly you won't be able to walk or possibly even crawl. And then of course there is cirrhosis of the liver, a chronic condition that can kill you.

Answer 4

When you drink alcohol (alcohol is a poison) your liver releases chemicals in your blood stream to combat the poison, these chemicals are what make you feel drunk, when you drink too much one of two things can happen. 1) Your liver gives up and shuts down because it can no longer produce chemicals (drinking yourself sober) this if done too many times can damage the liver and produce harmful scarring. 2)Alcohol poisoning, when too much alcohol is in your system it reaches the brain and destroys braincells causing symptoms as violent shaking, violently throwing up and under extreme conditions even death. That is what happens when you consume too much alcohol, I hope this answers your question.

Answer 5

ALCOHOL SAPS BODY FLUIDS & STARVES YOUR SYSTEM. IT DILUTES YOUR BLOOD RESULTING IN YOUR BRAIN NOT GETTING ENOUGH NOURISHMENT, RESULTING IN A SITUATION CALLED HANGOVER.

THIS CAN BE CONTROLLED TO A GREAT EXTENT, BY ONLY ONE WAY - DRINK A BOTTLE FULL OF WATER BEFORE YOU SLEEP & TRY & HAVE ANOTHER ONE DURING THE COURSE OF THE NIGHT.............. WOULD HELP YOUR SYSTEM REPLENISH THE LOST FLUIDS & LESSEN THE HEAVYNESS IN YOUR HEAD.

BUT THE BEST CURE IS - PREVENTION MY DEAR FRIEND.

Answer 6

Your body lands on the ground.

Answer 7

It dehydrates causing muscles to tighten and organs to swell.

Answer 8

you get drunk, do stupid things and kill some brain cells. Hopefully it's only your brain cells and not another persons life when you decide you are sober enough to drive.

Answer 9

You become an Alchoholic, and it leads to liver damage. and in the end you DIE!

Answer 10

u get a hang over