If you drink 560 units of alcohol in 20 days how long will it take to come out of your system?

Answer 1

For people of European heritage, A unit of alcohol will normally be metabolized in about one hour so 20 units would require 20 hours before you are free of alcohol.

However, there are some human cultures where ancient tradition was to boil water for drinking rather than using brewing to sterilize it and this has lead to some genetic selection in the human population. Some people of East Asian and Native American descent lack a genetically coded enzyme that breaks down alcohol efficiently and the time it takes for these people to get alcohol out of their systems may be longer.

Answer 2

Assuming you don't die of alcohol poisoning....

A "unit" of alcohol is defined as the amount an average person's body can process in one hour (8 grams of pure ethyl alcohol).

That 280 units over 7 days works out at an average of 40 units per day.

Since, over a period of seven days, the excess alcohol would accumulate at the rate of 16 units (128 grams) of alcohol per day, at the end of seven days you would still have a minimum 896 grams of alcohol in your body. Since this is twice the dose at which 50% of the population would be dead, the chances are vanishingly small that you would survive. Hence, the remaining alcohol will never come out of your system entirely, unless you are cremated. In theory, if you survived and had a fully-functioning liver, it would take another 4-2/3 days to clear.

Answer 3

Figure 1 unit per hour. You do the arithmetic. (Hint: it's a trick question.)