When you chug alcohol, your liver drops everything—like a teenager ignoring chores—to process it. It uses an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase to break the booze into acetaldehyde, a toxic party crasher your body despises. Think of acetaldehyde as that friend who shows up uninvited, knocks over a lamp, and screams in your ear.
Your brain sees this chemical mess and panics: "INTRUDER! EVACUATE THE STOMACH!" So it signals the vomit button, often before you’ve even hit the fun part of the night. Surprising fact: your liver can only process about one drink per hour; after that, it’s just drowning in chaos.
