If you drink pure liquor like moonshine, you don’t get a hangover. Drink anything mixed with sugar and you guaranteed one.
Posted on 01/08/2022 8:05:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
A systematic review scrutinized 21 supposed treatments for hangovers.
Not that I don't love my go-to hangover meal — a fried chicken sandwich — but I'm also under no illusion that it will do what I really want it to do: literally cure my hangover. On the worst of mornings, the elusive hangover cure might seem like medicine's holy grail. And as you grasp your head, you may wonder if a cure exists and you simply haven't yet stumbled upon it.
But take nauseous comfort in this: New research out of the United Kingdom found no convincing evidence that any of the purported hangover cures out there actually work.
A team of four British doctors and professors completed a systematic review of 21 existing studies, each of which was a placebo-controlled, randomized trial of a different type of potential hangover cure. The list included simple natural cures like curcumin, clove extract, red ginseng, Korean pear juice, prickly pear, and artichoke extract and less familiar compounds like the anti-inflammatory loxoprofen and the sedative clormethiazole. It also included some branded cures like Rapid Recovery and Morning-Fit. (But the authors point out that common medical remedies such as Tylenol and aspirin were not part of the research.)
In the end, though some of these treatments did show statistically significant improvements in hangover symptoms, the authors concluded, "Only very low quality evidence of efficacy is available to recommend any pharmacologically active intervention for the treatment or prevention of alcohol-induced hangover." And certainly nothing they looked at could be described as a full-blown "cure."
"Given the continuing speculation in the media as to which hangover remedies work or not, the question around the effectiveness of substances that claim to treat or prevent a hangover appears to be one with considerable public interest," said Emmert Roberts, the paper's lead author and a doctor with the National Addiction Centre, Kings College London, and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. "Our study has found that evidence on these hangover remedies is of very low quality and there is a need to provide more rigorous assessment. For now, the surest way of preventing hangover symptoms is to abstain from alcohol or drink in moderation."
That said, if you were looking for a place to start your hangover cure pursuits, the paper — which was published in the journal Addiction — did point to three options which were said to "most warrant further study": clove extract, tolfenamic acid (currently used as a migraine treatment), and pyritinol (a semi-synthetic analog of vitamin B6).
Let's go, scientists! We're only a couple of days away from the weekend.
Ping
So ... you’re saying we need a vaccine?
Cheeseburger and 7-up.
You’re welcoe.
“Only very low quality evidence of efficacy is available to recommend any pharmacologically active intervention for the treatment or prevention of alcohol-induced hangover.” And certainly nothing they looked at could be described as a full-blown “cure.”
More lunacy from the medical field. I’ve not had a hangover in over 30 years, and it requires no “pharmacological intervention” whatsoever.
How Much Money could be made with an mRna Hangover VAX !!!!!
All you would have to do is claim that it doesn’t prevent Hangovers, but it reduces them, and it would have been much worse if you didn’t get the Vax.
And you should get Boosted every 6 months or your Hangovers could get worse
Drink water while drinking. Prevents dehydration of the brain. Just a suggestion. That, and don’t drink so much.
Has always worked for me.
Hangover symptoms are from dehydration. Drink water.
A couple of large glasses of wine was the perfect cure for a hangover, then maybe a third or fourth, if needed (or wanted).
Some is from methanol poisoning from wines and cheap liquor.
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”
…or 100 pounds of cure.
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Venture to say they’ve never had a Michelada. Prolly never been to South Texas.
Freshly sliced lemons in water along with good old coffee.
If you drink pure liquor like moonshine, you don’t get a hangover. Drink anything mixed with sugar and you guaranteed one.
Beer with V8 juice in it and a squeeze of lemon.
Hair of the dog always worked very well for me.
My research, which was extensive, concluded about 40 years ago but I recall that the best medicine for a hangover was a drink from a warm, flat beer leftover from the night before.
It didn’t taste good but it settled the stomach and relieved any headache I had.
That actually sounds good.
I got some liquid and pills from a kiosk in Korea and felt great 10 minutes later. Koreans know their hangovers.
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