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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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What's happening in your body when you 'sober up' due to panic?
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Catecholeamine release. Norepinephrine and epinephrine are endogenous sympathomimetics that have a variety of functions but are best understood in the context of the 'fight or flight' response in the sympathetic nervous system. This response primes the body for activity that may be crucial to survival. Effects include increased heart rate and blood pressure, shunting blood away from the gut to the muscles, raising blood glucose levels, and increasing alertness and reaction time. In the setting of alcohol intoxication the effect can be a perceived sense of sobering up, however judgement, coordination, and reaction time may still be impaired.