How the human body can lose tolerance to alcohol if it has not been exposed to alcohol over a long period of time.
In: Chemistry
Here’s my response from your first post that got removed. Not sure if you can see it anymore:
Well, your body is always trying to maintain homeostasis, or a constant healthy state. When you regularly consume alcohol, your body learns this and is prepared to adapt its metabolism of the drug and other things to maintain homeostasis better, even when you’re drunk/high. Essentially your body is trying to keep you from being drunk because being drunk is bad and your body interprets alcohol as a poison.
When you stop consuming alcohol or any drug for an extended period of time, your body sees the substance as “less of a threat” to its homeostasis, and thus lets its guard down and “forgets about it.”
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