It sure seems like drinking beer cleans your system because the morning after a round of Hazy IPAs can be brutal. It feels like you must have cleared out everything.
It makes sense that it feels a night of alcohol poisoning heavy beer drinking, would purge your system of whatever weak ass crap that is hiding out in your body.
Does beer clean your system?
The boiled down answer is no, it does not clean your system. Probably not how you feel like it does anyway. But, there is some cleaning that I will look at in a bit.
Drinking beer (or any alcohol for that matter) will take water from your system. It will also make your kidneys work harder because you are dehydrating yourself with the boozing.
So all the things being “cleansed” from your body are mostly the byproduct of being dehydrated.
You are making your body work its butt off to get back to where it was prior to drinking. So it feels like you are cleansing in some weird way. But really you are just hungover.
Why Does Beer Dehydrate You When It’s Mostly Water?!
The effects of alcohol, whether it’s drinking beer (or whatever other booze you damn well fancy) for some messed up reason, makes you pee a lot.
Yes, I know what you are thinking right now “Well of course it does, you damn beer blogging idiot, it is liquid!”
Yeah well, get this weird fact I never knew, the alcohol in beer makes you PEE EVEN MORE THAN THE AMOUNT OF BEER YOU DRANK!
I guess that is the dehydrate part. (duh, Mike)
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