ALCOHOL

What happens after alcohol is absorbed? After alcohol is absorbed, it is distributed throughout the body through the bloodstream.
Alcohol is a water-soluble substance. For this reason, while alcohol reaches more water-rich areas in our body, such as muscles, it is less abundant in fatty tissue. As a result, when two people of the same weight consume the same amount of alcohol, an obese person with more fat tissue is more affected by alcohol. A person with more muscle tissue is less affected by alcohol.
The reason of this; In a person with more muscle tissue and therefore more water in the body, alcohol does not rise too much in the blood because it is distributed throughout the body. Since alcohol cannot spread into fat tissue in obese people, it rises in the blood.

Women are more affected by alcohol. The same logic applies here. Women have more fat layers on their bodies than men. Even if a man and a woman of the same weight drink the same amount of alcohol, the alcohol in the woman's blood rises more and she is affected more by alcohol. In addition, the amount of enzyme (alcohol dehydrogenase) that renders alcohol harmless to the body is lower in women than in men. In older men, the production of the enzyme that renders alcohol harmless decreases. For this reason, older men are more affected by alcohol than younger men. In people with liver damage, the production of alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme decreases. Some of the alcohol taken into the body is excreted from the body with respiratory air through the lungs without any change.
This is how breathalyzers make measurements during alcohol checks. Some alcohol is also excreted in the urine through the kidneys. Alcohol excreted through urine and respiration constitutes only 10% of the alcohol taken into the body. The remaining alcohol is processed in the liver to be rendered harmless to the body. With these processes, some alcohol is converted into fat and stored in the body, while energy is obtained from some alcohol. Alcohol enters the body with a lot of calories. Since these calories are excess, they are stored and cause weight gain.