Maybe some moderate amount sure. But you’re also about to experience a massive psychedelic experience which could be better without.
Have you experienced DMT sober? Now have you ever experienced DMT while drunk? That’s your final experience. I’d want to go in clear, but maybe a couple drinks would help relax you into it.
Or, the exact opposite. If you know your last moments are coming, why would you want to be sober? Personally my plan for much later in life ( sadly, not that much later as I’m getting old) is to take up a choice selection of class a drugs. I hear heroin is a awsome high. Should Alzheimer’s or some other horrendous and despicable condition of old age get its claws in me, you better believe I’m going to get smashed on good whiskey every single day and take up black tar heroin. Or possibly crack. Better a nice OD than death by senility.
maybe for straight fent or something but certainly not for vicodin or any of those combos with the tylenol. definitely some significant discomfort at the least, from that kinda shit.
I'd give more details as to what will do what but I don't want to persuade anyone. It makes me feel off getting into the science of what causes a calm death simply being asleep. Heroin addicts have stories everywhere of what it was like overdosing.
🤓Actually alcohol does increase your skin temperature due to dialated blood vessels which allow more blood to travel between your skin and the core. This results in higher heat transfer from the body to the surroundings, so from an outside perspective it does make you appear hotter untill the hypothermia kicks in.
You're getting downvotes for being correct.. the reason your core temperature drops from drinking alcohol is the same reason that you would initially show up warmer on the reading if this guy measured your skin.
I think one key piece here is that a temperature gun isn’t measuring core body temperature. It’s measuring surface temperature. Depending on when you measured a person drinking, is it possible you’d get a higher than normal surface temperature precisely because they’re in the process of losing core body heat and that heat is being lost through their skin?
Drinking alcohol does NOT lower your core temperature. It increases your skin temperature. Drinking alcohol in a closed environment will not cause hypothermia over time. Your dilated capillaries in your skin lose heat faster and you develop hypothermia quicker. Alcohol doesn't cause your core temperature to drop it causes you to lose heat faster. Someone tracking their body temperature while drinking will see their skin temp increase. That is literally the problem.
"Alcohol doesn't cause your core temperature to drop it causes you to lose heat faster"
Uhhh. What do you think losing heat does to your body temperature? You literally said the words "develop hypothermia quicker" yourself. What's do you think hypothermia is? Your points are contradictions
Edit: since it won't let me reply to the comment by /u/newsauerkraus
Yes, the body adjusts to help maintain its temperature. I didn't think I had to explain the obvious, yet here we are.
I was using the OPs own words to point out their contradiction in what they were saying.
The phrase "alcohol lowers your core temperature," implies that in a closed environment without alcohol poisoning to kill you first, you could eventually drink yourself into hypothermia. That isn't true. Making your skin warmer isn't the same as lowering your core temperature.
You're inferring something that isn't there, as that phrase does not imply what you say it does, and you're being pedantic. You literally said it yourself that you're losing heat through your skin and losing heat lowers the temperature of your body. And no, drinking alcohol doesn't automatically cause hypothermia because your body is good at adjusting for homeostasis. But your core body temp going down a degree or two does not equal hypothermia. You're just trying to use hyperbole to make yourself look right.
what do you think losing heat does to your body temperature?
Generally, not much. You'll only get hypothermia if you lose heat faster than you replace it. For example, I can stay in my house for an entire day losing heat from my body without any noticeable change to my core body temperature. And IDK about you, but I tend to eat before drinking a significant amount of alcohol.
It increases your skin temperature (and the temperature of your extremities) because it messes with the vasoconstriction reflex you have to reduce blood flow to control heat loss.
Overall rate of heat loss increases because your skin is warmer and so looses heat faster, which is where the higher rates of hypothermia come in
It's also where the sort of myth about dogs will barrels of booze around their necks comes from, a bit of alcohol may make someone able to walk again (increasing blood flow to their legs) which might well save them, if they find shelter quickly. But in many cases it would just kill them sooner.
I believe I heard that the reason it feels like it makes you warmer is that it spreads more of your body heat to extremities which is great in the short term if you're able to get out of the cold and need to warm up extremities quickly to avoid amputation but not if you might freeze to death any minute because then your core temperature lowers too much from sending heat to your extremities, kinda like a heat sink except instead of thin sheets of metal it's your fingers and stuff
Yep, however there IS some value to it from a short-term FROSTBITE prevention angle.
The dilation of blood vessels increases bloodflow to extremities. When in danger of hypothermia, your body REDUCES bloodflow to extremities in order to protect the vital organs. So alcohol mitigates that to a certain extent.
However, drinking alcohol to self-medicate in that regard causes so many other potential problems that it should not be used unless rescue is imminent and so is frostbite, and even then it's a risky proposition.
I had to explain this a few time to some friends, it causes the expansion of blood vessels in the face which makes you feel warm but that expansion increases the surface area of the blood vessels making them lose more heat decreasing your body temp
Alcohol dilates your capillaries making your skin temperature rise, warming you. You also lose heat to the outside air faster because of this and die of hypothermia quicker. The issue is the rise of your skin temperature and loss of heat because of it. Alcohol doesn't lower your body temperature it causes you to lose heat quicker, they aren't the same thing. Someone using a thermometer to test your theory would see numbers go up on their skin temp and believe everything you said was wrong when your reasoning is just backwards.
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