How to Sober Up
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The only thing that lowers the concentration of alcohol in your bloodstream is time. When alcohol enters your stomach, it’s quickly absorbed into your bloodstream through the stomach lining and small intestine.
Some alcoholic drinks are absorbed faster than others. Generally, stronger drinks are absorbed more quickly.
Alcoholic drinks have varying amounts of alcohol in them. Typically:
* beer is around 5 percent alcohol (some beers have more)
* wine is about 12 to 15 percent alcohol
* hard liquor is about 45 percent alcohol
A shot will get you drunk faster than a beer. You may begin to feel the effects within 10 minutes of drinking, and they’ll peak around 40 to 60 minutes after drinking.
Factors — like how much you weigh and whether you’ve eaten recently — can influence how quickly your body absorbs alcohol.
After alcohol enters the bloodstream it’s broken down by the liver. It takes about an hour for your liver to break down the amount of alcohol in a standard alcoholic drink (one beer, one glass of wine, or one shot).
If you drink alcohol faster than your liver can break it down, your blood alcohol level rises and you start feeling drunk.
There isn’t anything you can do to speed up how quickly your liver breaks down the alcohol in your blood, so sobering up fast isn’t really an option.
