![]() ![]() There’s going to be a back-up of alcohol in your blood stream and throughout your body. In such cases, think of your liver as a check-out line on Black Friday. One drink is equivalent to 12-ounces of standard beer, 1.5 ounces of 80 proof liquor, or 5 ounces of standard wine.ĭrinking more than one drink per hour can overwhelm your liver’s enzymes so that alcohol remains in your bloodstream and rest of the body. Typically this occurs at a rate of one ounce or the size of a standard drink per hour. Your liver is what metabolizes the alcohol, using enzymes to break it down. Unless you take an enema at the same time, which you could nickname “Enema of the State,” the extra water and electrolytes are not going to make that much more alcohol pass through your gastrointestinal tract unabsorbed.Įventually, it’s your liver that gets most of the alcohol out of your body. There your stomach absorbs about 20% of the alcohol, allowing much of the remaining 80% to be absorbed via your small intestine into your bloodstream. Assuming that you are not doing something “butt chugging” and instead drinking alcohol through your mouth, alcoholic beverages should go quickly to your stomach. ![]() While diluting the alcohol and staying well hydrated can help to some degree, what matters most is the absolute amount of alcohol that you drink over time. This BORGus episode showed that binge drinking is binge drinking no matter how “sweet” or “lyte” you try to make it. Although none of the cases turned out to life-threatening, the words “28 ambulances” and “everything’s cool” don’t tend to go together. ![]() This entailed the mass mobilization of resources including 28 ambulances in not only Amherst but also neighboring towns, as indicated by a press release from the University. That’s when a total of 46 University of Massachusetts Amherst students ended up being hospitalized after a BORG drinking challenge during their annual off-campus Blarney Blowout, according to Simrin Singh reporting for CBS News. Just look at what happened on November 4. The extra water and electrolyte solution alone won’t serve as a vaccine against binge drinking. It’s not as if BORG drinking in and of itself will make college drinking safer. In the end, the boofing discussion didn’t seem to impede Kavanaugh’s confirmation. When you are not happy in your job, your relationship, or life in general, you’re probably not going to rationalize your situation with, “Well, at least it’s not as bad as butt chugging.” If you’ve never heard of butt chugging, it’s the same as “boofing,” a term that came up during the 2018 Senate confirmation hearings for then Supreme Court-nominee Brett Kavanaugh, as I covered for Forbes back then. Well, Madison Malone Kircher reporting for the New York Times did quote a 21-year-old junior at the University of Louisville as saying, “When I compare BORGs to butt-chugging, it doesn’t seem as bad.” That’s not exactly saying much because a lot of things are not as bad as butt chugging. ![]()
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