Why does alcohol make you hungry?

Have you ever woken up famished after a big night of drinking?

New research has found there is a biological reason for why we overeat when we drink alcohol.

Overeating and eating junk food while drunk has popularly been blamed on a simple lack of self-control, but scientists at London's Francis Crick Institute have found there could be a scientific reason.

They discovered that the specific brain cells or neurons which stimulate the urge to eat can be activated by alcohol as well as by hunger.

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