Spaniards consume 9.5 liters of alcohol per year, with beer and wine being the preferred beverages. One of the biggest concerns of people who drink alcohol is knowing precisely how long its effect lasts, but also its presence in the blood. Thus, knowing how long alcohol lasts in the blood can make it possible to set a healthy limit on its consumption; or, at least, know how it affects our health and especially our behavior.
Alcohol consumption produces variable effects, both due to the amount ingested and the speed, age, body mass, the fact of having eaten or not, etc. Therefore, the answers to these questions should take into account thatThe times will be as approximate as the consequences .
Our body assimilates alcohol intake through a complex process that involves many organs . During the process of metabolizing alcohol in the body, it is absorbed through the stomach and small intestine. From there it radiates throughout the bloodstream.
In this way, the absorption of alcohol that occurs through the gastrointestinal tract is barely ingested. The small intestine absorbs 70%, the digestive system 20% and the colon 10%. However, it is the liver that is responsible for breaking down and eliminating the ethyl substance.Thus, a healthy liver can metabolize alcohol at the rate of 10 to 20 ml per hour.
Alcohol can be removedby two ways : through organic metabolism or by excretion . Most of it is eliminated by metabolism, through the liver, and between 1 and 10% is eliminated in pure form through urine, feces, sweat and exhalation.

HOW LONG DOES IT LAST IN THE BLOOD

The effects will be of variable duration for each individual depending on their sex, weight, amount of food eaten, interaction with certain medications, state of health of the liver or even the speed with which alcohol has been ingested.
Alcohol spreads rapidly through the bloodstreamand the tissues of the human body. There are two factors that are determining. In the first place, the speed at which it is drunk: the higher it is, the absorption speed will also be faster. And, secondly, the graduation of the drinks. In general, alcohol lasts in the blood between 10 and 19 hours after the last shot, which is how long it takes for the body to metabolize it.
Also, obviously, it will vary depending on the type of drink ingested, which will have a greater or lesser concentration of alcohol. In that sense, distilled and fermented beverages do not behave the same .
a guide tableof times of elimination of alcohol could be the following, making all possible reservations about the variety of alcohol, physical characteristics and circumstances of ingestion (with or without food, etc.):

One third of a liter of beer : it is estimated that one man will take less than two hours to eliminate the alcohol contained in this drink. Instead, a woman would take approximately two hours and fifty minutes.

A glass of wine or vermouth : a man will need about an hour and twenty minutes to eliminate it, and a woman about two hours.

A glass of liquor : a man will need about an hour and a woman up to almost two hours.
A cocktail ( mixture of alcohol and sugary drinks)): in this case, a man will need a little over an hour and a woman a little over three hours.

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