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This analogy doesn't really hold because if you run 15 miles tomorrow, get sore for three days, then run 15 miles when you're not sore again, you'll only be sor
by codyb 11y ago
This analogy doesn't really hold because if you run 15 miles tomorrow, get sore for three days, then run 15 miles when you're not sore again, you'll only be sore for 2.5 days, and then 2, 1.5, 1, and 0 or whatever.
Where as with alcohol, you can never really strengthen your body against a hangover. And you certainly don't get stronger and healthier because of it.
- Kenji 11y ago>Where as with alcohol, you can never really strengthen your body against a hangover. Actually, you do. A sign of true alcoholism is that you stop having hangovers (if you could call that strenghten is another question). But that's just nitpicking, the running analogy is far-fetched in other ways.
- thornofmight 11y agoYeah, the hangovers move way down deeper, like into your soul.
- nucleardog 11y agoHonestly, that's the best way I've ever heard to describe it.
- powera 11y agoIs that true? Don't people who drink regularly build up alcohol tolerance? I concede that might not make you healthier, though.
- Domenic_S 11y agoYou absolutely can strengthen your body against a hangover; it's called alcohol tolerance and it works quite similarly to exercise! It's why a casual drinker will get drunk/hungover from a couple wine coolers and Grandpa Willie can down a 5th of Jack nightly and barely feel it. How something feels is not a reliable indicator of how good it is for you. Exercise often feels terrible, but is good for you. Pizza and chocolate often feels great, but is terrible for you.
- mreiland 11y agoIncorrect, the reason a casual drinker gets a hangover is because they don't know enough to keep themselves hydrated, whereas someone who is more experienced will absolutely keep that water by their bed throughout the night.
- waterlesscloud 11y agoThat certainly minimizes hangover effects, but tolerance is why the habitual drinker gets less drunk (if all other factors are equal).
- gluelogic 11y agoIntoxication does not cause hangovers. Dehydration does.
- alephu5 11y agoIn this documentary, two twins compare the effect of binge drinking to regular alcohol intake. In one experiment, they both drink the same amount of fluid and collect their urine in measuring cylinders. Only one of the twins drinks alcohol and is consequently hungover, but both urinated the same amount. http://youtu.be/g0JL3Q-lpVY http://youtu.be/g0JL3Q-lpVY Not representative, but still relevant.
- ionised 11y agoThat's a myth isn't it? My understanding is that it was acetaldehyde accumulation that causes the shitty feeling on a hangover. You can down a bottle of whiskey and be hungover and dehydrated the next day. You can also drink pint after pint of beer which is mostly water and feel hungover, but it's not due to dehydration.
- mreiland 11y agoThe body uses water to process alcohol.
- cjoelrun 11y agoSaid another way: Exercise is conditioning cardiovascular ability. Drinking is conditioning the liver at processing a drug. Too much of anything is bad, but one is obviously healthy when practiced often, the other is not.