Today my giant friend here is lending us his mouth so I can talk to you about teeth

To start, human adults have 32 of those...what's going on here?

Well, it looks and smells like my friend here started drinking and on an empty stomach it seems.

I guess this is a good time to talk to you about what happens inside your body when you're drunk.

I'll do the teeth thing at another time.

While a small amount of alcohol is absorbed in the small blood vessels in your mouth and tongue, the majority is absorbed into your bloodstream

While in your digestive system, the stomach here absorbs about 20 percent.

If my friend had eaten something first, the alcohol would be diluted and take longer to absorb.

And since it would have stayed here longer, some would be broken down by stomach enzymes.

But since they didn't, it's going to move into these small intestines quickly, where the rest will be absorbed.

Here in the bloodstream, the alcohol makes your blood vessels widen, which can cause blushing, a temporary feeling of warmth, and a rise in blood pressure.

It moves throughout the body pretty fast, reaching the brain in just 5 to 10 minutes.

Uh... the precious and extremely confusing brain! 

Here is where things really start to happen.

Alcohol interferes with the brain's communication pathways by blocking chemical signals between brain cells called neurons.

This makes it harder for the brain to control your body, leading to slurred speech, slowed reflexes, and imbalance.

It can also make it harder to think clearly and affect your short-term memory as you continue to drink, which it seems is the case for my friend here.

Your blood alcohol content or BAC, goes up.

As this happens, these effects on your brain get worse.

Eventually your brain functions will get severely impaired and you'll be risk of passing out, going into a coma, or even death.

Thankfully, my friend hasn't been drinking that much, and their liver is hard at work, breaking down the alcohol.

The liver is one of the organs that filter your blood.

Here with the help of enzymes, alcohol goes from its original form, ethanol, to a toxic carcinogen, acetaldehyde, to acetate, and finally to carbon dioxide and water.

While acetaldehyde is short-lived, it can cause significant damage especially to the liver.

Since this is where about 90 percent of the alcohol is broken down.

Nearly all the rest is processed by the kidneys , which also filter your blood and remove harmful substances like alcohol through urine.

Kidneys also regulate the amount of water in your body by monitoring the amount of particles in your blood, compared to fluid, since alcohol is a fluid.

This is why you pee more when you drink.

But alcohol can make your kidneys release more water than they should.

While messing with your brain's communication system, the alcohol prevents the brain from releasing a hormone called vasopressin, or anti-diuretic hormone.

This hormone tells your kidneys to hold on to water.

So without it, your kidneys are just making you pee constantly.

So, let's get out of here before that happens.

I really don't want to exit the body through that end.

Here we are, back to where it all began.

As I was saying, excess urination can lead to dehydration and common hangover symptoms like headaches and nausea.

Once your BAC is back to normal, which it seems like is the case for my friend here, and that means ... oh no.

Well, I definitely need my data scrubbed.

So if you're of age, tell me how many drinks can you handle, and if you're not, let us know what other 360 VR videos you want us to make .