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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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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Alcohol is an antidiuretic hormone inhibitor. There’s this substance in your body that works to keep you from peeing out more of the water inside of you than is healthy, but alcohol gets in its way and interferes with its work, so when you drink, you pee too much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasopressin

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