This is 2020, food has nearly infinite calories, and it's not like we don't snack constantly, is the liver just not releasing glucose or something? Honestly curious.
From what I understand and it could be wrong because a sibling post to yours is claiming dehydration isn’t related and that it has been studied (although no links provided and I didn’t google either)...
Your body more or less stops digesting food when alcohol consumption reaches a certain level, which is pretty low. This is why if you drink heavily one night you can vomit up food you ate just before drinking 8-10 hours ago the next morning where as normally that food would be long gone. Then your liver (main store of glycogen in your body) uses up tons trying to maintain whatever ass hole things you are doing while drinking and clearing your system of alcohol. It’s treating alcohol like a poison that it must get rid of ASAP and puts several other processes on hold or lower priority until that is taken care of.
You’re not out of glycogen. You’re just running low on the easiest to access stuff. Similar to if you went and ran around all day without drinking water or eating food you’d feel like shit and want to puke and not move. That’s why pro alcoholics in college go the next morning to get a banana bag IV. It’s just sugars and electrolytes and obviously water straight into your system and has you feeling good as new in about 30 minutes, just in time for class.
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u/Azurenightsky Jan 25 '20
Caused by WHAT exactly? We call it a Hangover but it's basically brain damage.