How long does the speaker say the liver takes to detoxify alcohol?

Name: Alcohol & Women's Health: The Unspoken Truth
Uploaded: 2025-08-08T12:00:32+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Jenn Simmons, MD
Description: A short conversational excerpt from the YouTube video "Alcohol & Women's Health: The Unspoken Truth" (Jenn Simmons, MD). Speakers discuss how when women…

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A short conversational excerpt from the YouTube video "Alcohol & Women's Health: The Unspoken Truth" (Jenn Simmons, MD). Speakers discuss how when women drink alcohol the liver prioritizes detoxifying alcohol (stated to take eight hours) over other tasks, notably hormone detoxification; as a result methylation pathways that help clear estrogens may be deprioritized, potentially increasing estrogen-related load.

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Eight hours.

Come on, not, no one's saying this enough.
So when a woman drinks alcohol, not only does her liver have to detoxify that alcohol, which takes eight hours, it also has to then figure out how it's supposed to do everything else and detoxify that alcohol. And your liver is always going to go to the thing that will hurt you the most, Right? So alcohol is going to be the most toxic thing that your liver is dealing with. It's going to take care of that and it's going to take care of that at the expense of what it was supposed to be doing, which for most women, it's detoxifying your hormones.
Come on. Not, no one's saying this enough. Right.
Yeah.
Powerful thing because you have to methylate out the alcohol because it's prioritizing that poison and it can't methylate out the estrogens that you're, that you're dealing with. This complexity that you're talking about.