How to cure a hangover: what one man found after a 10-year quest

Re:How to cure a hangover: what one man found after a 10-yea... by CydeWeys on Friday November 30, 2018 @03:17PM (#18572232)

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.

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Re:How to cure a hangover: what one man found after a 10-yea... by stryan on Friday November 30, 2018 @03:50PM (#18572509)

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.)

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Re:How to cure a hangover: what one man found after a 10-yea... by Retric on Friday November 30, 2018 @03:30PM (#18572344)

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.

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Re:How to cure a hangover: what one man found after a 10-yea... by ams6110 on Friday November 30, 2018 @03:27PM (#18572318)

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.

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