Alcohol Tolerance?

Question

lets say a 14 year old decides 2 start drinking ovr summer brake. at first the alcohol affects them majorly, but then by the end of summer they can drink 4 bottles and stay in control (mostly) if that person decided 2 stop drinking and wait till they turned 21 to start again, how wuld that impact theyr tolerance? wuld it stay the same after all those years, or wuld they revert bak 2 theyr alcohol-naive state?

Answer 1

I would say this person needs to take some spelling lessons first.

Other than that it is possible to build up a tolerance to alcohol, however you can never become immune to its effects. Over time it will just take more and more alcohol (or a higher proof) to get you drunk. Although you mentioned this person stopping their drinking habbits, it would be very difficult, and even if this person did achive their goal, they prob lose their tolerance to alcohole over many many many years.

Answer 2

Good thing you stoped drinking because if not, your liver would be in TERRIBLE shape by the time you reached your 30's! So that is good you stoped.  When start drinking again when you are 21, you will build a tolerance again, but that is very good, because you body will not be damaged as quickly as if you had a tolerance of all that time.  So it works on your benefit.  Unless you want to die young and have sirrosis, i think its a good idea what you are doing!

Answer 3

It should take less then a month for your alcohol tolerance to become normal if you dont drink AT ALL

Answer 4

they would have a slightly higher tolerence simply because the liver would be more robust in handling alcohol at 21 than14

Answer 5

Leave it alone! Why go back?

Answer 6

i'd say it would revert back to their alcohol naive state.

Answer 7

.lol sounds like we are talking about you. most likely after you havent had it for a while you are not used to it soo yu will probably go back to how yu were when yu first started drinking.

Answer 8

GO BACK TO NORMAL!!!!!!!!!BETTER  NOT STOP!!!!

Answer 9

Um a 14 year old shouldn't be drinking...but it will go back down I drank lots at 18 (it is leagal here) and stopped and tried to drink this past xmas (6 years later) and was drunk after 1 drink

Answer 10

The alcohol tolerance would definitely revert to where it was when it was first introduced to it.  

Our body treats alcohol like a poison or a foreign toxin.  So what it does is try and build up and immunity to it by counteracting that toxin with whatever we have available, in this case it's enzymes in our liver called cytochromes.  The more these cytochromes are used to working overtime, the more your "tolerance" builds.  When they work less, then they relax more and get conditioned to relax more.

However, some people are genetically built to have more enzymes in their livers and can therefore consume more alcohol - but that's a different topic.

Answer 11

a 14 yr old should let thier liver finish growing first, before stressing it with toxins.

Answer 12

ya it is possible to loose your tolerence....my cous is a heavy drinker. then he went to truck driving school and didnt drink for a month. he went out and got pretty buzzed off 2 beers.