Wine makes me tired..Vodka makes me restless..Why?

Question

I sometimes have a few glasses of White Zinfandel in the evening and I just want to go to sleep. However if I drink 2 Vodkas with Diet Squirt which is caffeine free I have this sudden burst of energy. Is it sugar content, carbonization or what?

Answer 1

Knock the Vodka on the head and try tea instead.

Answer 2

I'd say it has to do with the speed you drink it at, and the alcohol content of those drinks.  Most people sip wine slower than they'd drink other drinks, so the alcohol slowly works its way through your system.  Plus, it's lower in alcohol, so rather than stimulating you the way alcohol does in the mixed drink with the vodka, it's slow-going and you get to the down-slope of intoxication faster than you normally would.  The faster drinking of the vodka drink at a higher level of alcohol is what gives you the pep in your step.  

*EDIT* The other thing is that the chemicals in diet soda actually increase absorption of alcohol by as much as 50%, so that's yet another way that the vodka drink is getting you intoxicated quicker.

Answer 3

   Welcome to Wine Country, wine has sulfides in it. They make you sleepy and relaxed, as long as you arent allergic to them.  Vodka, on the other hand is distilled, so, it contains no naturally occurring sulfides.  

Answer 4

Maybe that means that you shouldn't drink it because it is bad for your body. So just stop drinking it

Answer 5

It's the fake sugar, coupled with the uneven pace of alcohol absorption.  When you drink wine, the alcohol gets into your bloodstream at an even rate until it's all entered, which creates a gradually-increasing depressant effect on your nervous system.  The vodka with carbonated soda, however, gets into the blood stream much more quickly, which causes a quick uptick in the BAC, but then as the liver kicks in it starts going down right away (so you almost immediately become less tired than you were when the vodka entered your blood.

There's no real sugar in diet soda, only artificial sweetener.  The sweet taste of the aspartame or whatever  signals to the brain that you're consuming sugar, so that mobilizing the metabolism of your body to stimulate quick processing of what you just drank and getting it to your cells.  Since you don't actually eat any sugar, your body stays on metabolic high alert for a while, contributing to the 'burst of energy' effect.