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I absolutely do not remember enough biochemistry from medical school to know off hand, but a brief lit review gave me these:
"Alcohol has a high energy content, and this energy is utilized by the body as efficiently as the energy in normal food. Ethanol has such good properties as a substrate for energy production that we are faced with the problem of explaining, not why it is consumed, but why it is not consumed in still larger quantities by nonalcoholic humans or by animals. When alcohol is consumed by animals, the intake of food decreases in relation to the caloric content of the alcohol; if a choice of macronutrients is possible, alcohol decreases the consumption of carbohydrates most."
"Step 3 Much of the acetate produced by the oxidation of acetaldehyde leaves the liver and circulates to peripheral tissues where it is activated to a key Acetyl CoA. Acetyl CoA is also the key metabolite produced form all major nutrients- carbohydrate, fat and excess protein. Thus, carbon atoms from alcohol wind up as the same products produced from the oxidation of carbohydrate, fat, and protein, including CO2, fatty acids, ketone bodies, and cholesterol; which products are formed depends on the energy state and the nutritional and hormonal conditions."
My main recollection is that it's shockingly energy dense but I don't remember which form of metabolism it most mimics. The above implies probably none of them, with the "it becomes sugar" perhaps being related to the carb's bit in the first quote, or the way it can absolutely fuck you up with hyperglycemia (which does not necessarily require pure sugar intake).
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