We have to be careful with things like this.
“because the alcohol continued to push them down”
Alcohol does not push your BG down. At all. Period. Only insulin does. (or exercise, but let’s not open up that can of worms.)
Alcohol can inhibit the liver from releasing glucose. But preventing glucose from being released is not the same as pushing someone’s BG down.
Suppose a college kid is taking a basal insulin which is programmed to counter-act their normal liver glucose release. Or they are on a pump which is programmed for the same thing. When they drink heavily, the liver does not respond like it normally does, so the insulin they take does not have the normal glucose from the liver, and the insulin drops them low. It is not the alcohol that drops them, it is the insulin. The alcohol simply changes the normal liver behavior that they are used to.
So yes, a big round of heavy drinking can have an affect, but it is not the alcohol. It is the combination of insulin, and the alcohol inhibiting the liver.
Does all that make sense?
I hope to make it understandable, but I don’t want to be accused of man-splaining.
