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Why do bartenders have the most experience dealing with the differences in how women and men metabolize a drug?

Because alcohol.

A short thread on how medicine doesn't consider drug metabolism differences between the biological sexes.

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We used to think that differences in alcohol tolerance between M + F was only due to any differences in weight/fat.

But that's not the whole story.

Even when sexes are matched for weight, there is a marked discrepancy in which sex metabolizes alcohol faster, M>F.

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Women don't have the same level of activity of alcohol dehydrogenase, an enzyme which helps break down alcohol in the body.

And other enzymes that break down prescription drugs may also be less active in women, making them more likely to experience adverse side effects. Image
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