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What happens to the alcohol you drink? It is festive season and almost everybody has fun and interacts socially with friends and alcohol seems to be the link for such festivities. Imagine going to a party and no alcohol to drink, and that would be the dullest and boring interaction, as well go for meditation. Now what happens when you drink your first glass of Scotch? 20 percent of that Scotch gets absorbed from your stomach into your blood stream and the rest is absorbed through your small bowel. From your blood, alcohol goes straight to your liver through the portal veins. It is then metabolised and processed through enzymes produced in the liver. If you drink more alcohol quickly, your liver cannot process all that alcohol and tends to accumulates in your body, including your brain. ...