Why does beer go through you so fast?

Question

Biochemistry please?

Does the ethanol go into solution and increase the actual fluid sensed by receptors or what?

Answer 1

Ethanol blocks Vasopressin secretion. (Vasopressin is also known as antidiuretic hormone ADH.) Blocking antidiuresis would enhance diuresis. Hence you pee...alot.

Answer 2

Ethanol would go into the bloodstream quite quickly due to the fact that it is a weak acid and is protonated in the stomach so it would diffuse through the stomach lining.

Ethanol is then metabolized by a couple enzymes in the liver.

As for what makes you pee.....I'm not sure. Can't be osmoregulation...it must be a lowering of vasopressin.

Answer 3

It doesn't, really, though it certainly seems so. Alcohol supresses the production of ADH (antidiuretic hormone), so you pee like a racehorse.
In medical school physiology class, my group had three "controls" who emptied their bladders and drank 24 ounces of water, then measured their urine output after two hours. We two brave volunteers, purely in the furtherance of medical science, after emptying our bladders, forced down a couple of cold ones. After two hours, our average urine output was about ten times that of the control group. What we suffer for science!

Answer 4

Because alcohol is a diuretic. It triggers your system to flush water. So you're not just getting rid of the beer, you're getting rid of water in general.

Answer 5

If it goes right through how come some men have beer guts ?

Answer 6

Alcohol is a natural diuretic....which causes you to lose water quicker.

Answer 7

its a diuretic