Is it correct that alcohol is metabolized and turns into sugar in the bloostream?
Another alcohol and low-carb diet urban legend. Metabolism is the body’s process of converting ingested substances to other compounds. Metabolism results in some substances becoming more, and some less, toxic than those originally ingested. Metabolism involves a number of processes, one of which is referred to as oxidation. Through oxidation, alcohol is detoxified and removed from the blood, preventing the alcohol from accumulating and destroying cells and organs. When alcohol is consumed, it passes from the stomach and intestines into the blood. Alcohol is then metabolized by enzymes that break it down into other chemicals. In the liver, an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) mediates the conversion of alcohol to acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde is rapidly converted to acetate by other enzymes and is eventually metabolized to carbon dioxide and water. Alcohol is also metabolized in the liver by the enzyme cytochrome. Most of the alcohol consumed is metabolized in the liver, but the sm
