beer drinkers are supposed to be notorious for running to the bathroom. you sit in a beer joint for three hours, consume three times your body weight in budweiser, and leave most of it in the john because , as every beer drinker knows, the stuff "just goes right through you." what very few beer drinkers know is theat the reason it goes right through you has little to do with its liquid volume: it's a function of something called vasopressin or, as it's more comonly known, antidiuretic hormone, or adh. adh, which is produced in your hypothalamus, regulates urine production and indirectly affects the amount of water in our bloodstream. when you're dehydrated, the hormone signals the kidneys to stop producing urine, so more water can be retained by the blood and you aren't done in by a concentration of salt in your plasma. thus adh helps you to maintain a healthy balance between internal water and salt; without it youd be in serious trouble. certain substances, though, inhibit the secretion of adh, and when that happens the kidneys don't know they are supposed to stop producing urine. they keep drawing water out of the body as if nothing were amiss, filling the baldder, sending you to the john, and further dehydrating your body. you guessed it: one of the substances that inhibits adh is alcohol. when you drink a lot of beer, therefore, you make it impossible for the kidneys to work efficiently. without the signals from adh, they work over-time, so that your bladder seems always be full. exactly the same thing would happen though, if you spent those three hours in a bar guzzling whiskey sours-or if you spent them at a truck stop sipping coffee. caffeine, like alcohol, is an adh inhibitor, and if you drink enough of it , it will foul up your kidneys just as well. it's not the beer, but the alcohol, which increases your urine supply. it should be evident from this explanation that one of the major elements in drunkennesss is dehydration. thirst, in fact, is a common symptom of a hangover: your body is letting your know you drained it too dry the night before. that's why one way of diminishing the effect of a hangover is to gulp down a quart or two of water after you come back from the bar. it may not be exactly the bedtime snack you have in mind, but it will replace some of the water you've lost, and you'll feel less run over in the morning. gerard tortora and nicholas anagnostakos, principles of anatomy and physiology (canfield press, 1978).
OK Snorton, you're a pretty well read guy... Why is it that you can drink beer for hours and not have to p*ss... ...and then after the first time you do it's like you're RUNNING to the head ALL THE TIME... ...put THAT in your scientific osmosis machine and see what dribbles out... I need to know quick because I'm about to go drinkin'....
i just finished typing the article (sorry i'm a slow typist).....from what i gather from it though it all functions around this adh thing. it may take awhile before the adh is "fooled" by the alcohol and once it is fooled 'bro you will piss like a racehorse.....have fun drinkin'
one more thing....i've been drinkin' rusty nails for the past 2 hours and guess what.....i gotta urinate
one more, one more thing. don't forget to post the pic's of the twenty-somethings. me, giada and mama maria are having a "let's find the hot dog party", you're invited if you want to come........
Duh, everybody knows if you just don't give in that first time, you'll be able to go all night without having to go :hihi: As they say, you don't buy beer...
There's a bar in College Station, Texas, Dudley's Draw (I think.) Some years back, their policy was...everybody drinks free beer (on Friday afternoons?) until someone goes to the bathroom. There was always some poor sorority girl who ruined it for everybody...according to the Aggies I know.
I once went a night of drinking with out pissing until i got home.. most painful thing i ever did, but it was worth the free 2 30 packs the next night. Also i have this magic trick you all should see that involves pissing and a hand eye coordination skill
