Part 2: What happens after you take your first sip of beer?
Channel: The Conversation
Date: 2018-08-03

What happens after we take our first sip? How does alcohol make its way from our lips into our stomach and then onto our brain? This video explains how alcohol enters the bloodstream and why our bodies very efficient system for processing nutrients also explains how we get drunk.

Part 2/4 of our series on alcohol and the body.

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Edited, animated and voiced by Wes Mountain
Script by Emil Jeyaratnam
Reviewed by Terry Mulhern, Rosa McCarty and Jenna Hayes
Music: Daniel Birch - Passed out drunk (freemusicarchive.org)