Hoping can help me where Google has failed.
Alcohol inhibitions nutrient absorbsion in a variety of ways, this is a fact. But nothing I can find says how long after consumption is absorbsion impaired.
Is is just while it’s in your stomach?
Is it the (roughly) 1 hour per drink time it takes to process the alcohol by the liver?
The (roughly) 6 hours it is detectable in your blood?
The 12-24 hours it can be detected in your urine?
Or some other value?
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Well I don’t think your going to find a good ELI5 because your question might be a flawed.
We can measure impaired nutrient absorption in alcoholics. Digestive damage, endocrine damage, liver damage all affect these things and you can build studies around measuring those impacts.
I don’t know how you’d even make a study to measure the effect of alcohols immediate effect on a given meal. There probably is some detriment but we don’t have any means of measuring what it is. At least I’m not aware of any, perhaps someone will surprise me.
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