ah man this hangover science where are
you now that I need you most Anthony
here for dnews and there is no real cure
for a hangover
seriously there is not but scientists
are arguing and it's about time to find
one see hangovers are estimated to cost
us companies over one hundred and forty
eight billion dollars every year how
well people taking sick days making dumb
mistakes cuz they're not feeling well
that's sort of thing we know a ton of
stuff about the effects of alcohol on
the body but we've never looked much
into the hangover scientifically anyway
we know what it is about them that makes
us feel awful alcohol dehydrates us it
increased the production of stomach acid
which makes us nauseous it makes your
blood sugar fall which is where all that
weakness and shakiness comes from it
also makes your blood vessels expand
which turns into that pounding headache
we even know what the main ingredient in
alcohol is that causes all of these
nasty symptoms congeners congeners are
what give different alcohols their
flavor and there are more of them in
dark liquors like bourbon and whiskey
and dark fears but so far all the cures
we have for hangovers are either
folklore or con artistry or water so
eating a greasy or fatty meal in the
morning seems to be what most people do
which makes sense because alcohol saps
your body of needed salts and proteins
drinking fruit juice will give you back
a bunch of your missing sugars and
electrolytes and vitamins eggs are
phenomenal for replacing cysteine which
is this super awesome chemical that your
body uses to clean out toxins so all
this stuff puts a bunch of missing
things back into your body but you'll
probably just feel bad again in 15 to 20
minutes because the damage is already
done so why don't we have a hangover
pill and no the ones at the drugstore
don't count because they're basically
glorified multivitamins Allison Mitchell
a professor at UC Davis thinks that
science shiz away from curing the
hangover because no one wants to promote
out-of-control drinking but she also
says that a hangover is this interesting
metabolic perfect storm of systems
failing and that if we studied it it
would improve our understanding of the
immune system the metabolism and our
gastrointestinal system curing hangovers
might
just be the most important thing that
science can do ok I'm over-exaggerating
there is one major scientific
advancement towards eliminating the
hangover researchers at UCLA and USC
basically got a bunch of mice drunk and
then injected them with nano capsules
full of enzymes that the body uses to
metabolize alcohol the blood alcohol
content in the mice began to fall super
quickly
the thought is that in the future you'd
be able to have a few drinks then take a
pill that breaks down the alcohol before
your liver has - meaning your body
doesn't have to use a ton of resources
to break it down on its own boom no
hangovers until then the best you can do
is have a fatty meal before you go out
drinking and then have a lot of water
that night well the actual best thing
you can do is not drink but I'm not your
real mom so I'm not going to get all
judgy on you or whatever what's your
favorite home hangover remedy I always
drink about a half a gallon of water
before I go to bed and then eat all of
the eggs in the morning all of them let
me know what you do and subscribe for
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