Can men improve their alcohol tolerance?

Many men are busy with work during the day, and go to parties or cocktail parties at night. Whether it is a party or a cocktail party, it is a test of a person's alcohol tolerance. If you can't drink well, not only will you fall down easily, but others will also laugh at you. So can you train your alcohol tolerance? According to some practices, you can train your alcohol tolerance, but we must pay attention to the problem of moderation. We can't drink a lot of alcohol just to train our alcohol tolerance.

Myth 1: Eating meat as a base can protect the stomach wall and prevent you from getting drunk easily. Eating some fatty food first can slow down the speed at which alcohol enters the body, but it will not reduce the amount of alcohol absorbed, so you will only get drunk later, not less easily. On the contrary, because the process of getting drunk is delayed, it will make people more likely to drink a few more glasses, which will make them more drunk and increase the risk of alcohol poisoning.

Myth 2: Mixing several kinds of alcohol together will make you drunk easily. Whether you drink one or several kinds of alcohol, it will not affect the body's absorption of alcohol. As long as the amount of alcohol consumed reaches a certain level, people will feel drunk, regardless of the type of alcohol. However, mixing several kinds of alcohol together will cause greater stimulation to organs such as the stomach and liver, and is more likely to cause gastrointestinal discomfort.

Myth 3: Alcohol tolerance is related to body shape and gender. Generally speaking, women have less alcohol-breaking enzymes in their bodies than men, so they can drink less. Weight and body shape are also important factors in determining alcohol tolerance. When taking the same amount of alcohol, fat and tall people have more water and blood in their bodies, and the alcohol concentration in their blood is lower, so they are less likely to get drunk, so they seem to have a better alcohol tolerance. However, since the absorption of alcohol also depends on many other factors, including personal genes, metabolic rate, and medications currently taken, alcohol tolerance cannot be judged solely by body shape and gender.

Myth 4: You can learn to drink more. Long-term drinking will constantly stimulate the enzymes that break down alcohol, which may increase their secretion and improve their ability to break down alcohol, making people feel that they can drink better, but it will not reduce the damage that alcohol does to the body. Alcohol depends on liver metabolism. Long-term intake of large amounts of alcohol will overload the liver, causing pathological changes, leading to fatty liver and cirrhosis; it will also damage the nervous system, reduce fertility, induce stroke, heart disease and other diseases, and increase the risk of cancer.

Myth 5: Drinking alcohol to keep warm. After drinking, blood vessels are stimulated by alcohol to dilate and thicken, causing blood to flow faster to the skin, bringing warmth. However, this is only a temporary illusion: after the short-term warmth, the blood vessels cannot contract in time, which will speed up the body's heat dissipation and make people feel colder.

Myth 6: Alcohol is a stimulant, and getting drunk can relieve your worries. Alcohol is actually a depressant, which paralyzes the central nervous system in the brain, reduces self-control, and makes drunk people do things they would not normally do, such as making a scene, so people have the illusion of being excited and emotional. However, as the blood alcohol concentration increases, the body will gradually produce various discomforts, which will make people more depressed.

Myth 7: You can sober up by lying down and sleeping. Drunk people often vomit. If they lie down, the vomit will flow back into the airway, blocking the trachea, causing pneumonia, or even suffocation and death. Therefore, the drunk must sleep on his side so that the vomit can flow out of the mouth. In addition, do not let the drunk rest alone in an unfamiliar environment, such as KTV, bars, etc., to avoid accidents.

Myth 8: Cold showers, hot coffee or strong tea can help sober you up. Cold showers and hot coffee may help you sober up temporarily, but they cannot reduce blood alcohol concentration. Caffeine and theanine in coffee and strong tea have diuretic effects, stimulating the body to excrete a large amount of water, which is not conducive to diluting alcohol.

Can you train your drinking capacity? Of course you can. Although drinking capacity is very important for men, we should pay more attention to health issues. People often say that drinking less is not only good for the development of physical health, but also can refresh the mind. However, drinking too much will not only harm our physical health, but also easily cause traffic accidents. From this point of view, there are still many issues to pay attention to when drinking.