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This seems like a XKCD / Randall Munroe “What if” kind of question. I.e., how long would a person survive if all of the water inside them was turned into wine?

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A quick search suggests that blood is 80% water. Turning that into wine at a weak concentration of 5.5% results in around at 14.5% BAC which is over 10 times greater than the highest ever recorded, so it would be certainly lethal.

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Wine is 80-90% water, but all that alcohol and other flavor compounds directly in your bloodstream would not be good.

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Yeah, but how long before I croak?!?!? I need to know now!

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Pretty much immediately. You wouldn’t even know it.

Acidic pH like wine denatures proteins. It would destroy you on the cellular level, basic cell functions would cease to work. You could say it would stop your breathing or cause an instant heart attack, but it would be more like as if it fried your brain and heart like an egg in an instant.

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I have a different question. How much wine extract can i add to the water in my body to be able to correctly state i exist out of 80% wine and still live.

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You somehow didn’t answer the question, and the thing you said instead is completely obvious to anyone.

If there’s a cousin of Jesus that turns people’s brains into porridge, you’ve certainly been on the receiving end of that power.

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Wine is 15% alcohol.

Human are 60% water.

Human weight around 70kg

70 x 0.6 = 42 L

42 x 0.15 = 6.3 L of pure alcohol.

You’d probably die before ingesting that amount tho

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5 points

Probably 0.00 seconds.

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2 points

That’s what I’m talking about. OK then.

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5 points

To be specific, it’d likely immediately fuck up the electrical signals in the brain, thus killing the brain.

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What if all the water turned to wine at 1 standard drink per hour

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Seconds as wine amd water do not have the same consistency. Your blood cells won’t move effectively enough and a BAC of 6% is extremely fatal as most will die at .6%

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