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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There was a study done, where (i think), 100 people were collected in a hall, with all 100 people getting free booze the entire night, with entertainment etc. 50 of them were asked to choose 1 kind of alcohol they would stick with the entire night (only beer, only wine or such). The other 50 people were free to do as they pleased. The result was that the people where they mixed alcohol got worse hangovers. HOWEVER, the real study was done at the bar where they counted the beverages per person. Apparently the people that mixed drinks drank more, because mixing it up is more interesting, than drinking beer number 8 or 9. So it seems the majority of it at least is that it makes you sick more to mix, simply because it’s easier/more interesting to drink more if you mix it up than just keep chugging beers the entire night.

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