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Come on. Getting drunk will lower your survival chances for sure. It counterintuitively doesn't warm you up, waste precious energy while the body fights intoxic
by hartator 3y ago
Come on. Getting drunk will lower your survival chances for sure. It counterintuitively doesn't warm you up, waste precious energy while the body fights intoxication, and you are more likely to injure yourself in anything requiring body coordination.
- speedgoose 3y agoI am not sure that drinking alcohol wastes energy. It contains a lot of calories, more than sugar. I also haven’t heard about people drinking alcohol to lose weight.
- hartator 3y agoVomiting won’t retain calories which happens when you are “spectacularly drunk”.
- zemvpferreira 3y agoSomeone is clearly not an experienced drunk (joke, joke)
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoAlcohol is a vasodilator so maybe you'd lose more heat that way.
- _yb2s 3y agoPeople lose a lot of weight on beer only fasts… there is also a long history of trappist monks doing beer only fasts for religious reasons, and presumably losing a lot of weight. My understanding is they are usually using high carb low alcohol beer, so it’s more of a liquid only low fat diet than an alcohol diet.
- testless 3y agoAppoximately 7 kcal per gramm vs 4 kcal per gramm for sugar
- nerdponx 3y agoThe article addresses this. One hypothesis is that the cold shock counteracted the vasodilation, and being drunk allowed him to make it through the cold shock without drowning. How he managed to not go hypothermic is unclear, but maybe paddling around without noticing the fatigue or pain was enough to keep him going until he found the overturned boat.
- bhickey 3y ago> being drunk allowed him to make it through the cold shock without drowning. He had a life belt on, so he wouldn't have drowned. Being drunk might've prevented a heart attack brought on by cold water shock.