Women's bodies are generally smaller and have less body
water, so alcohol concentrations rise more quickly
Sorry ladies, but you can’t drink
as much as men. That’s not a
male conspiracy theory but a
biological fact! Women have
less body water than men so the
concentration of alcohol in their
blood stream is proportionally
higher. So, if a woman weighing
60 kgs drinks a double vodka
then a man of the same size will
need to drink a triple in order to
reach the same blood alcohol
level.
There is also some evidence that women break down alcohol slightly differently. The
enzyme ADH breaks down alcohol in the liver and in the lining of the stomach; and
women have less of it, so alcohol is broken down more slowly.