Chapter

Alcohol Metabolism

From Human Nutrition by Human Nutrition

Concepts

1. Alcohol Metabolism

   "Giving the liver enough time to fully metabolize the ingested alcohol is the only effective way to avoid alcohol toxicity. Drinking coffee or taking a shower will not help. The legal limit for intoxi

2. Ethanol Consumption

   "Distilled spirits have exceptionally few nutrients, but beer and wine do provide some nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and beneficial plant chemicals along with calories. A typical beer is 150 kilocalo

3. Liver Systems

   "The liver metabolizes up to 85%–98% of the circulatory ethanol. The liver uses two metabolic processes to get rid of this circulatory ethanol as quickly and safely as possible: the alcohol dehydrogen

4. Acetate Fate

   "The acetate produced from the alcohol dehydrogenase system and microsomal ethanol oxidizing system is either released into circulation or retained inside the liver cells. In the liver cells, acetate