People have been making and consuming alcohol for millenia – it is one of humankind’s earliest technologies. According to this article, “There is a perfectly respectable academic theory that civilization began with beer.”

The next step was distillation, to concentrate the alcohol. See How Moonshine Works

More recently, the idea of new delivery systems has surfaced – vaporizing alcohol and inhaling it is one of them:

AWOL – inhaling alcohol

Bringing us to the latest innovation – oxygen-infused alcohol, as described here:

- Scientists Have Discovered Booze That Won’t Give You A Hangover

- For Booze Without Hangovers, Fortifying Liquor With Oxygen Might Be the Key

The basic idea is simple enough: Fill a bottle with an alcoholic beverage and add pressurized oxygen. The liquid will absorb the oxygen – this is the same thing happening with any carbonated beverage (except carbonated beverages use carbon dioxide instead of oxygen).

When you open the bottle of oxygenated alcohol, the liquid will fizz like a carbonated beverage. But in the oxygenated case, the bubbles contain pure oxygen.

One claim is that you can consume oxygenated alcohol without getting a hangover afterward. The other claim is that the body clears oxygenated alcohol from the bloodstream more quickly than normal alcohol. How does this work? The first article puts it this way:

So why does adding O2 to booze lessen the nasty after effects? When you drink ethanol, you body needs to oxidize it to water and carbon dioxide in order to process it. This occurs via hepatic oxidation, where the liver does its thing to counteract the liquor you’ve just poured down your gullet. The enzymes that process alcohol require oxygen to function, and it’s thought that by storing the oxygen in the alcohol itself, the system functions more quickly and efficiently.

For more details see the articles, as well as:
- What would happen if you took alcohol intravenously?
- How Hangovers Work

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