Thank you. That article was filled with so much useless junk, hiding the one piece of information I was actually curious about.

These are somewhat popular in India (1), my friend swears by it. Not sure if they work or it's just a placebo effect.

(1) http://www.himalayastore.com/wellness/general/partysmart.htm

Warning: DO NOT OPEN THE ABOVE LINK IF YOU'RE NOT IN INDIA!

It made my browser (Chrome mobile) freeze, it displayed a url saying "nonIndia" and was stuck in a constant refresh loop. On Chrome mobile I was unable to close the tab due to bad UX (the close button wouldn't respond so you tap it constantly, but then it closes and you accidently clock on the "reopen tap button" which appears right below your finger and you go back to square one.

What a horribly designed page.

Or, alternatively, just don't drink so much. If you drank so much you're feeling bad from it the next day then you definitely over-indulged. Hiding the hangover isn't solving the root problem. Drinking too much causes real health problems that aren't prevented by treating the symptoms.

I'm glad I get hangovers. It makes it really obvious when I've overdone it, and it's a useful reminder not to do that again. If I could drink a lot all the time and never experience the short term negative effects then I would definitely experience the long-term ones of alcoholism.

There's more variables than just "don't drink so much". Just the other week I woke up with a hangover after having two (4.5% ABV) beers. And this is coming from somehow who often measures their intake in liters, not bottles.

Whether you get a hangover or not is dependent on pretty much all the variables of alcohol metabolism: how much you drink, how fast, at what time, whether you had a full stomach, what type of food you ate, the type of alcohol (dark vs clear), whether you smoked cigarettes, etc. While you definitely shouldn't drink so much, I think it's a bit disingenuous to simply the issue down to how much you drank the night before.

(My personal theory for the two beers night is due to me drinking them some time between 1 and 3 in the morning.)

Hangovers are only loosely related to how much alcohol you consume.

You can drink a fairly extreme amounts of alcohol and not get a hangover if you also drink enough water before you go to sleep. Alternatively, if you where even slightly dehydrated even fairly modest drinking can result in a hangover.

Of course, but for many people, after a couple of drinks, and especially in a party setting, that good judgment goes out the window, resulting in overindulgence and a hangover.

1. Avoid alcohol made with added sugar

2. Don't mix drinks, i.e, wine with whisky

3. Water, every 1-2 drinks have a glass of water.

Thank me later.

> Don't mix drinks, i.e, wine with whisky

Is this not just superstition?

I've found that people's thinking for this comes from either your first point about sugar, or from failing to update your expectations when you go from, say, drinking pints that will take a while to metabolize, and then taking shots that are going to hit you hard and fast with the expectation that they work at the same speed.

I've never heard a reason that, say, a shot and a beer would make you more hung over than a shot and another shot distributed in a beer's worth of water (so it lands at the same pace).

I've heard that carbonation in some drinks acts as a more efficient alcohol delivery system, so mixing heavily carbonated drinks (beer) with higher proof ones (liquor) will maximize absorption and potentially lead to a stronger intoxication / hangover.

That makes sense! There are some funny "beer will hydrate you faster than water after cardio" studies that work for this reason.