how does alcohol dehydrate a person? Is it through the actual act of drinking or that it makes you urinate more and you don’t replenish with water?
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There is a hormone called ADH that tells your kidneys to just filter water but keep some and send some to the bladder. Alcohol won’t let it be produced by your brain so your kidneys just assume that there is too much water in your blood stream and send it all to your bladder.
So you pee like you are well hydrated, while actually becoming dehydrated. The common term “breaking the seal” is really just the start of this cycle of your bladder not holding anything back.
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