• CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Or they are just able to tolerate more and are bigger than you.

      I’ve drank a 6 pack of 10% and blown a .06 in 2 hours.

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        4 days ago

        Besides size, that looks of tolerance is exactly the insight. It doesn’t come from birth.

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          3 days ago

          It does come from birth though? Genetics play a huge part role in alcohol processing

          Practice doesn’t make you metabolize the alcohol much faster, it makes you better at functioning at a higher BAC, it increases tolerance not metabolism

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            3 days ago

            I don’t know how much faster it gets, but consuming alcohol increases the expression of alcohol dehydrogenase, so you metabolise it faster.

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              2 days ago

              Yeah, obviously. Do you think your body is at maximum alcohol detox levels at all times? Of course not, that’s one part of the detox pathway that fires up when you start drinking

              How long do you think enzymes stick around? Do you think they pile up?

              Their expression is generally linked to presence of a trigger and limited by their byproducts. So you’ll produce more of them when exposed to alcohol, then max out based on how quickly the byproducts can be moved

              Again, how quickly you process alcohol is mostly genetics

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          4 days ago

          You don’t think people have different metabolic tolerance and processing rates?

          🤯

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            4 days ago

            They do, but nobody’s sinking 210ml of pure ethanol and blowing that low without either being the size of a house or putting in some serious practice. That’s the same as drinking 2 entire bottles of wine in 2 hours.

            It’s the practice they were talking about with “insight”.