Originally Posted by FXjohn
Alcohol, meanwhile, is truly dehydrating because the body needs water for your liver to metabolize all that tequila you just drank. However, studies found that one drink won't harm you and diluted alcoholic drinks like beer can count as a fluid replacement as long as you drink moderately.
I know, from personal experience that when one beer goes in, three come out. Then again I don't drink any piss, like Coors! Alcohol is particularly dangerous because it impairs judgement, deadens pain, and is a vasoconstrictor( making you loose more heat than normal secondary to the greater blood flow to the extemities and close to the skin. As any serious drinker knows, it is also a big time diuretic, reducing total blood volume, in the end. The big danger with drinking and then going out into the cold is that you can become hypothermic.