I apologize in advance, but I’m writing this crossed and I didn’t want to forget my question.
Can someone please explain to me why, that when I’ve had a couple/too many drinks my pee is crystal clear, however the next morning my pee is the color of pee from the sewer combined with the ocean?
TLDR; how does hydration work?
In: Biology
Alcohol is a diuretic – it makes you pee. Basically your body sees getting drunk as being mildly poisoned, and works quickly to break down and flush out the alcohol. Meaning you make lots of pee, and the stuff that gives it color is very diluted, and thus it’s very clear.
Drunk people are usually bad at forward thinking, so you don’t drink enough water before bed to replace all that, so the next morning your pee has very little water, the other stuff is very concentrated, and it looks nautical. 🙂
Alcohol is a diuretic, and it causes your body to eliminate water- too much beer, lots of watery pee… until the next day and now you are very dehydrated, which is part of the hangover. Hydrate before bed!
These answers are close but not quite there. Alcohol is directly toxic to the filtering/concentrating system in the kidney tubules, causing you to be unable to concentrate urine (even when your body normally would). This, combined with drunk people wanting to drink anything but water, gives you crystal light at the party, skunky apple juice in the morning.
Just to add, urine is typically darker and more concentrated first thing in the morning, even without alcohol involvement, because we dehydrate overnight whilst sleeping.
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