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| Men Can Drink More Alcohol Than Women |
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| This is not just a sexist myth. Men are biologically better equipped to drink more than women.
"It's true not just because they're bigger but because they have an extra enzyme in the lining of their stomach and that enzyme, when it sees alcohol, begins to metabolize it immediately," said Oz. "So only about half the alcohol that they actually drink gets into the bloodstream."
Women, on the other hand, don't have as much of that enzyme in their stomachs. So more of the alcohol gets into the bloodstream and they get drunk quicker.
That gender difference is even more problematic, because while overall drinking trends are down over the past 20 years, many young women are drinking more than ever.
But the more a person drinks, the more their body builds up a tolerance for alcohol, according to Oz. So they actually begin to metabolize it faster.
"So women who are exposed to a lot of alcohol, do begin to catch up to men in their ability to cope with the drinks that they have," Oz said.
But before women get their hopes up that excessive drinking will level the playing field, remember that men still have the biological advantage.
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