Why Do We Get the Spins When We’re Drunk?

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If you're old enough to drink, you may have had a few too many cocktails and suddenly everything is spinning. Strange as it might seem, that’s not because the alcohol you drank is messing with your brain! So what causes the spins? Hosted by: Anthony Brown ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC552814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279394/ https://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/semicircular-canals https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11037/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10863/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8814972 https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Ethanol http://clinchem.aaccjnls.org/content/20/5/615

Published 2020-03-02 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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