How does building up alcohol tolerance work? The more consistently you drink alcohol the more tolerance you build to it, so over a long time it will take more alcohol to get you drunk. Just curious how this works.
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Alcohol gets broken down in your body by enzymes produced by your liver. When you drink enough to get drunk, it’s because you’ve taken in alcohol faster than your body can process it.
If you do this regularly, your liver “learns” that it needs more of these enzymes so it produces more, which means you need to consume more alcohol to have it get you drunk.
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