Now, it is not true that we visit the bathroom more because we are ingesting liquid. On the contrary, because alcohol dehydrates. Our body has a natural antidiuretic that regulates the amount of water in the blood, but alcohol inhibits its action. Result: the activity of the kidneys shoots up and we feel more like urinating. And due to this dehydration, the alcohol that we are surely going to continue drinking is going to have a much more pronounced effect on our body.
The alcohol we drink is eliminated in part through the lungs and in part through sweat and urine , but not in sufficient quantities. In fact, the amount removed is around 2%. The remaining 98% is metabolized by the liver, our particular anti-poison machine, eliminating between 7 to 10 grams of alcohol per hour. In other words, the time it takes for the liver -if it is in good condition- to eliminate the one that we get in a cubata is more than two hours. And the three straws at noon, three hours. Of course, everything has a price: for every gram of metabolized alcohol we acquire 7.1 calories . And empty calories, which do not feed but do make you fat …
