Is there any difference from your livers perspective to drink slower, but still at capacity (i.e. 1 standard drink per hour) or is it the same as drinking a lot of drinks at the same time and the liver getting ‘backed up’? Is one of them better for your liver? Is there a ‘waiting room’ per se?

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Is there any difference from your livers perspective to drink slower, but still at capacity (i.e. 1 standard drink per hour) or is it the same as drinking a lot of drinks at the same time and the liver getting ‘backed up’? Is one of them better for your liver? Is there a ‘waiting room’ per se?

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Answer 1

Many people in this thread are making the claim that “the more alcohol you drink, the faster your liver works”. This is technically incorrect.

Alcohol falls under “zero-order kinetics” which means a constant amount of alcohol will be eliminated at a constant rate, as opposed to first order which is eliminated faster with higher concentrations of drug.
https://sepia2.unil.ch/pharmacology/parameters/elimination-kinetics/#:~:text=A%20few%20substances%20are%20eliminated,%2C%20Cisplatin%2C%20Fluoxetin%2C%20Omeprazol.

Regardless, lots of alcohol will definitely be worse than drinking less alcohol.