Diet Pop Gets You Drunk Faster

Order that same mixed drink with diet soda the alcohol is going to enter your system a lot faster.

Diet pop gets you drunk faster. Study subjects who drank booze with diet mixers having an 18 higher brac than those who went. Diet soda gets you drunk faster. Rather the sugar in regular soda. According to the study published in a journal called alcoholism no the irony isn t lost on us the lack of sugar in diet sodas accelerates alcohol s absorption into the blood stream.

A study shows diet soda leads to almost 20 higher breath alcohol levels than regular soda when used in mixed drinks. In other words it is not that diet soda accelerates intoxication. Diet soda gets you drunk faster in mixed drinks. New findings suggest that diet soda mixed with alcohol leads to faster intoxication than regular soda mixers.

Turns out that sugar slows down the absorption of alcohol from the stomach to the bloodstream.