A buzz in the sun can hit harder than dinnertime drinks.
after your dinner winds down, for example. But the novelty of an afternoon alcoholic beverage means people don’t always keep tabs on how much they’re consuming, said Dr Akhil Anand, a psychiatrist at the Cleveland Clinic.
If you’re drinking throughout the day, and not necessarily keeping tabs on where to get your next snack, it also stands to reason that you wouldn’t have food in your stomach to help slow down the rate at which your body absorbs alcoholDrinking while the sun is outmakes you more likely to become dehydrated, and dehydration can intensify the effects of intoxication: You may feel fatigued, lightheaded, woozy or just generally out of it, said Dr Sarah Andrews, an assistant professor of psychiatry...
On a sweaty day, you can lose more fluids than you’re able to replenish, which means you also lose sodium and minerals that help your body function normally. And that’s on top of the dehydrating nature of alcohol itself, which acts as a diuretic and pushes fluids out of your system by making you urinate more frequently.THE HANGOVER MIGHT ARRIVE EARLIER
The earlier the drinking starts, the sooner that dry-mouthed, headachy hangover feeling comes on. A mimosa brunch could translate into a dinnertime hangover, said Dr Danesh Alam, an addiction psychiatrist at Northwestern Medicine, though it’s more likely that a hangover will start early the following morningwhenever your blood alcohol content has dipped back down to zero. Because day drinking can be so dehydrating, hangover symptoms are likely to be worse, Dr Anand said.
You might sink into a nap, which can make it harder to fall asleep later. Or you could end up powering through the day and then suffering the typical nighttime consequences that come with drinking: Jolting awake at one or two in the morning. But if you have the foresight to give yourself a buffer period of three or four hours between your last drink and when you go to sleepyour body may have a chance to metabolise the alcohol before bedtime, allowing you to get sufficient rest.
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