Drink, Drank, Drunk: What Happens When We Drink Alcohol (Video)

Drink, Drank, Drunk: What Happens When We Drink Alcohol (Video)
There’s a reason we apologise to our livers after a big night, and it’s not pretty. Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND
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Alcohol is a depressant, a diuretic, and a disinfectant. These generally aren’t pleasant attributes, but people have been drinking alcohol for thousands of years – some of the earliest written texts mention or contain recipes for beer, and pottery shards from China show people may have been making alcohol as far back as 7,000BCE.

So what is this special chemical that we’ve loved to drink for so long?

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