One is that mixing different types of drinks is likely to make you feel unwell during your drinking session and contribute to a worse hangover. Congeners are compounds that are produced during the manufacturing process, with drinks like whisky containing more congeners than drinks like vodka. But research testing this theory found congeners have little impact on levels of intoxication or hangovers. A healthy adult body is only able to eliminate one standard drink or 10 grams of alcohol per hour.
If you are consuming more alcohol than the body is able to eliminate then the likelihood of feeling sick increases. The first step in metabolising alcohol involves your body converting it into acetaldehyde. This chemical is similar in structure to the poison formaldehyde and is also quite toxic. Shanken Communications, Inc. The U.
New York, NY: M. Simon M, Mosher J. US Food and Drug Administration. Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages Website. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Accessed July 30, Am J Prev Med.
World Health Organization. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; Current and binge drinking among high school students — United States, — Community Preventive Services Task Force. This is however just an average. The same quantity of alcohol does not always result in the same severity of hangover. In a study of young Danes on holiday , almost a third of those who consumed at least 12 units of alcohol roughly equivalent to four pints of lager or four ml glasses of wine avoided hangovers.
Many drinkers report that they don't get hangovers at all, but it's unclear why Thinkstock. If combining three or four measures of spirits alongside other ingredients, a throbbing head and dry throat is probably just the result of consuming more alcohol in total. Beyond the ethanol that triggers intoxication, the other key ingredients that affect hangovers are what the beverage industry calls congeners.
These are the other substances produced during fermentation, such as acetone, acetaldehyde, fusel oil and the best-known, tannins, which give darker drinks their colour and part of their flavour.
Bourbon whisky, for example, contains 37 times the quantity of congeners as vodka. To find out the effect of these substances on hangover severity, researchers in the US recruited university students who were regular drinkers, without alcohol problems.
On different nights they were given either bourbon and cola, vodka and cola or a placebo which consisted of cola mixed with tonic, with a few drops of either bourbon or vodka to make it taste similar to the real stuff. If using weed does indeed slow the absorption of alcohol, it might also delay feelings of drunkenness.
This might seem like a good thing, but it makes it harder to know how impaired you really are. A review of existing studies notes that people who use alcohol and weed together tend to consume more of both. This can increase your risk for developing a dependence on alcohol, weed, or both. A study from evaluated performance on cognitive tasks among 21 heavy weed users who had consumed alcohol. Those who consumed just alcohol had worse cognitive functioning than those who only consumed THC.
Those who combined the two had reduced cognitive performance than those who only consumed alcohol. Over the long term, combining alcohol and weed may be associated with decreased cognitive function and changes in brain structures, such as the hippocampus.
In a study , 80 people participated in six testing sessions. In each session, participants consumed a different combination of placebo, low, and moderate doses of THC and alcohol. Then they completed a driving simulation. The researchers reported that combining THC and alcohol consistently impaired driving performance, with worse performance during nighttime simulations. Adding alcohol to a low dose of THC impaired driving simulator scores by 21 percent.
Adding alcohol to a high dose of THC impaired driving simulator scores by 17 percent. When mixing weed and alcohol, there are a lot of other variables to consider in addition to which one you use first. The safest bet is to avoid using weed and alcohol together.
Keep a running tab in your phone, if you have to. Remember, consuming weed and alcohol together can make you feel either more or less intoxicated than you would if you were using just one or the other.
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