why does the body always wake up so early after a night of drinking?
In: Biology
So lots of people have explained that it’s the stimulants that your brain produces keeping you wired to counteract the depressant of alcohol. I’ve also learned that it’s due to a blood sugar crash.
Your liver is good at multitasking, but it hates alcohol with its entire being so it focuses on processing it. It’s also responsible for breaking down glycogen to regulate blood sugar in times of fasting (sleep). Since it’s occupied with alcohol, it doesn’t do that so well. Therefore your fasting blood sugar gets super low, and your body won’t let you go to sleep because instinctually it is trying to say “you need to get up and forage or we are gonna die”.
That’s why once your hangover nausea dies down enough that you can smash a couple mcdoubles, your body crashes and you can really take a nap. It’s also why I recommend drinking orange juice when you wake up annoyingly early after drinking, for a little sugar pick-me-up. Half orange juice, half water is great, or if you’ve progressed reasonably far into alcoholism, half orange juice, half beer. That’s called a beermosa, it IS good, and you’re welcome college kids.
If nothing else, the waking up early is a combination of a lot of problems. Alcohol is super bad for your body lol.
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