EP 472: How long does alcohol stay in my body after I stop drinking?
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How Does Your Brain React to Alcohol?
Your brain has been pre compensating for alcohol years, decades in some of our cases. In the short term, when you take the alcohol away, what is that truck going to do? It's going to over accelerate. And so it's not going to down gear or down shift or do any of the things that a truck should naturally do to slow down. You can have a hard time sleeping because your body has been producing extra cortical extra ogenalin to compensate for the depressent nature of alcohol. If you are drinking or not, it isn't in response any more to the drink. It is in response to the situation,. Because the brain is super smart, and it says,
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