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A comment on “A Toast to Your Health”: Getting Drunk in Colonial America (2013). Parent comment

Re:“A Toast to Your Health”: Getting Drunk in Colonial Ameri... by trentmb on Monday June 29, 2015 @03:47PM (#9800436)
Isn't alcohol a diuretic?
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Re:“A Toast to Your Health”: Getting Drunk in Colonial Ameri... by saint_fiasco on Monday June 29, 2015 @04:18PM (#9800685)
It depends on concentration. If the concentration is low enough, then the alcohol will exit your system in the same sweat that keeps you cooled down, and the same pee that gets rid of other stuff (pee is rarely saturated).

It's only when you drink enough alcohol that you start sweating/peeing specifically to get rid of alcohol that you get diuretic effects.

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Re:“A Toast to Your Health”: Getting Drunk in Colonial Ameri... by abandonliberty on Monday June 29, 2015 @05:05PM (#9801071)
If you're a bit dehydrated, 1L of 4% beer won't make it worse, and 2% supposedly does nothing.

Alcohol isn't just a toxin that your body eliminates; one of its effects are to override our excretion pathways. http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/24t7hr/at_what_p...

The science in this field is interesting. Poor test subjects had to drink a litre of 4% beer. http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/4/366.full

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