What Happens When You Drink Alcohol & How Your Body Removes It

Alcohol’s first stop is your stomach followed by your intestines, both of which absorb alcohol through capillaries in their linings. The bloodborne alcohol then passes to your liver through the portal vein. When it first arrives, some of the alcohol will be processed out. Whatever amount remains is then passed into the rest of your bloodstream, which carries the substance throughout the rest of your body.

Once it has entered your broader circulatory system, it spreads to every major organ, including your kidneys, heart, and brain. Alcohol’s ability to reach almost every part of your body is why it can cause so many different issues, including myopathy (muscle tissue disease), heart myopathy, (heart disease), pancreatitis, gastritis (stomach inflammation), polyneuropathy (peripheral nerve disease), and many more. Alcohol reaches every tissue and organ in your body except fat and bone.

Your liver will remove most of the alcohol as it continues to circulate through your blood, although your kidneys, lungs (through exhalation), and skin (through sweating) are also potential ways of removing alcohol from your blood. Because of this, alcohol can be detected in urine, breath, and sweat testing.

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