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EP 13: Alcohol Explained with William Porter

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How Alcohol Can Make You Sick

Alcohol actually numbs your gag reflex which is why often you're not sick until the next morning. When that aneththizing effect wears off you've still got the sickness hanging on afterwards so it outlives it unfortunately. We regularly in our society drink a poison to levels that makes us physically sick the entire next day and then brag about that sickness. It's just unreal that we drink something that makes us sick and then brags about the sickness. If you want to know more about like the biology the science the actual physical reactions to alcohol william's book is just phenomenal so i highly recommend it.

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