The alcohol is absorbed by your intestines without being filtered in your liver.
Quote: from hokie at 1:25 am on Nov. 29, 2008 Actually, it's a fact that you'll get drunk faster when alcohol enters through your butt. If it took you just a can of beer to get drunk, and you poured it all through your anus, you would feel it quicker then if you took the same amount at the same rate through your mouth. Fair enough, I accept that the large intestine might be a more efficient absorber of alcohol and so you could get drunk faster. I'm not exactly sure what all the liver has to do with alcohol, but I know that it does act as a filter to help prevent alcohol poisoning. And when it's coming from your butt and avoiding the liver, there's nothing there to even help prevent it. You're just taking straight alcohol into your bloodstream. The liver doesn't filter alcohol and simply absorbing alcohol in your intestine doesn't avoid the liver at all. You can absorb nutrients anywhere in your GI tract and it all ends up in the same place: the blood.
Actually, it's a fact that you'll get drunk faster when alcohol enters through your butt. If it took you just a can of beer to get drunk, and you poured it all through your anus, you would feel it quicker then if you took the same amount at the same rate through your mouth.
Fair enough, I accept that the large intestine might be a more efficient absorber of alcohol and so you could get drunk faster.
I'm not exactly sure what all the liver has to do with alcohol, but I know that it does act as a filter to help prevent alcohol poisoning. And when it's coming from your butt and avoiding the liver, there's nothing there to even help prevent it. You're just taking straight alcohol into your bloodstream.
The liver doesn't filter alcohol and simply absorbing alcohol in your intestine doesn't avoid the liver at all. You can absorb nutrients anywhere in your GI tract and it all ends up in the same place: the blood.
Oh, gotcha. Then I was indeed wrong about the liver, lol.
Quote: from hokie at 2:09 am on Nov. 28, 2008 This. Alcohol avoiding being filtered by your liver isn't cool just because it'll straight get you drunk faster, it's just not good because it won't filter it at all in keeping you from getting alcohol poisoning. The liver doesn't filter alcohol, it just absorbs it from the bloodstream and catabolises it at a rate of about a unit per hour. Pretty dangerous, actually. But I mean yeah... you'll def get drunk faster. No you won't. If the absorption rate is the same, which I doubt it is, you will get drunk to the same extent no matter how it enters your blood. My guess is that alcohol is most efficiently absorbed in the stomach, and it's much nicer and easier that way too.
This. Alcohol avoiding being filtered by your liver isn't cool just because it'll straight get you drunk faster, it's just not good because it won't filter it at all in keeping you from getting alcohol poisoning.
The liver doesn't filter alcohol, it just absorbs it from the bloodstream and catabolises it at a rate of about a unit per hour.
Pretty dangerous, actually. But I mean yeah... you'll def get drunk faster.
No you won't. If the absorption rate is the same, which I doubt it is, you will get drunk to the same extent no matter how it enters your blood.
My guess is that alcohol is most efficiently absorbed in the stomach, and it's much nicer and easier that way too.
Yeah, you might get drunk the same no matter where it enters, but you'll feel it quicker when it comes up from down low.
I watched something on television about this a long time ago, and read something about it on the internet too a while back. I don't have any sources, but this is what was presented. If that's all wrong... then I'm out of eligibility to contribute to these conversations anymore, lol.
Your liver is not in your neck, shockingly.
There is a reason your liver is supposed to filter the alcohol. You'll get alcohol poisoning incredibly easily your way. FP
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