How to Hold Your Liquor

Let’s begin by learning what it means to hold your liquor. Essentially, it means passing an evening of drinking without ever having drawn negative attention to you as a drinker.

If you execute only one step out of these four in your attempt to hold your liquor, make it this one. It alone won’t assure you success, but getting some food in your stomach prior to a night of drinking gives your ability to hold your liquor a fighting chance, almost regardless of how self-destructive you choose to be. Its absorption ability helps to slow the speed at which alcohol enters your bloodstream. It keeps the alcohol in your stomach, where it takes longer to absorb. On an empty stomach, alcohol makes a mad dash for your small intestine, where absorption is much quicker.

Alcohol by any other name will get you drunk, but consistency in what you drink will help you hold your liquor. Some people dilute and flavor an otherwise very toxic substance in order to make it palatable. Mixing them, inside your stomach, won’t somehow augment their potency. Rather, it’s a basic question of volume -- how much alcohol you’re putting into your body. Drinking a few beers takes time and allows your organs to process the alcohol while progressively getting you drunk, but then doing a few shots on top, which takes no time at all, is sending the process into overdrive and scheduling you for an appointment with a vomit and end in going to toilet. Look at the time when you start your first drink and don’t order another one for an hour. The average liver can process about one drink an hour, so you’re wise to keep that pace. Any faster and you’re asking for it.

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