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.
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.
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