Which of the following statement best describes alcohol tolerance?

1- The higher your alcohol tolerance, the more alcohol you need to ingest to reach any given BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) level
2- Regardless of tolerance, the same amount of alcohol will always result in the same BAC, but a person with a higher tolerance will experience less impairment from that level of alcohol than a person with lower tolerance

or comments if there is something missing from what I wrote

and ty for reading

Neither. You'll still have the same amount of impairment from the same levels of alcohol. The tolerance refers to the "drunken euphoria" feeling you get from drinking. You have to drink more to get to that state, but the loss of balance and delayed reaction time etc are still there before you get to it, even if you have a high tolerance.

A faster rate of going drunk to sober also happens with higher tolerance due to more alcohol dehydrogenases in the liver.

1 best describes it

2 is contrary to alcohol tolerance, the same amount of alcohol will NOT result in the same BAC for different people, different tolerance but with same BAC = same drunkness, that means they took different amounts of alcohol to reach the same BAC if their tolerance is different

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...a person who has a history of alcohol abuse will experience reverse tolerance or what is known in the treatment field as " breaking the filter " since the fatty and/or scarred parts of the liver no longer process alcohol efficiently and more alcohol remains in the bloodstream . Once the " filter is broken " the individual will experience the initial euphoria on far less consumed alcohol even though the physical tolerance that allows them to function continues to increase to the point they can remain conscious with a BAC that would kill a low tolerance individual .


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This post was edited by WidowMaKer_MK on Jan 14 2012 06:54pm

This is spot on.



You're both right. You can reach the point of increased tolerance well before you get any significant degree of liver cirrhosis. In the slightly more extreme situation of such liver damage, your explanation then comes into play.

But I think the OP meant in a normal situation for a still relatively healthy individual.

nvm

This post was edited by Ocen on Jan 14 2012 07:36pm

i looked it up and both are false, tolerance doesn't affect your BAC

in other words, your BAC remains proportionate with the amount of alcohol you ingest no matter your tolerance




my above post is complete intuitive non sense

This post was edited by Wyrmvater on Jan 14 2012 07:45pm

tolerance wont change how much is in your blood
obviously

This post was edited by Sarasaurus on Jan 14 2012 10:46pm

I wasn't taking it to that extreme where cirrhosis has set in, for example. You're right once the liver has been very badly damaged. I'm right until that point.