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According to research published in the journal *Alcohol and Alcoholism*, eating a meal before consuming alcohol can increase the rate of alcohol elimination from the blood by 25-45%. This critical effect highlights the crucial interplay between food, particularly carbohydrates, and how your body processes alcohol.

According to the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard, a single night of sleep deprivation can impair performance as much as a blood-alcohol level of 0.10 percent, illustrating how significantly fatigue affects cognitive function alone. This fact lays the groundwork for understanding why combining exhaustion with alcohol is a recipe for exaggerated impairment.