Eli5: does mixing alcohols really make you sick? If it does, why?

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I’ve always heard things like liquor before beer. You’re in the clear and that mixing brown and white can go bad, but why are you not supposed to mix alcohols?

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I don’t know if there’s any science to support it, but the justification I’ve heard is that your body is metabolizing one alcohol at whatever rate it is, like beer. Then if you swap to something harder it’s still digesting and metabolizing it at the same rate, but suddenly it’s much higher alcohol percentage. Actually typing it out i realize this doesn’t really doesn’t make any sense is probably just BS. It’s probably just because you’ve been drinking a lot.

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