Here's what's really happening inside your body when you drink:
Your liver converts alcohol into a toxic compound called acetaldehyde — a substance up to 30x more toxic than alcohol itself. It's this compound (not the alcohol) that causes the headache, nausea, fatigue, and brain fog the next morning.
When you drink faster than your liver can process acetaldehyde, it floods your system. Your body's natural stores of glutathione — the master antioxidant responsible for neutralizing acetaldehyde — get completely depleted.
The result? You wake up poisoned, dehydrated, inflamed, and running on empty.
The real problem isn't that you drank too much. It's that your body ran out of the nutrients it needs to process what you drank.