Something to sober you up if you're already drunk would be amazing, but I don't think this will do that
Also works great for hangovers.
Something tells me if they can't provide such a trivial result, it ain't working as folks expect (and god knows what nasty side effects it can have).
While it doesn’t alleviate all of the hangover symptoms it does nearly eliminate all of the most unpleasant ones.
For the rest of us though, what’s left over is a mild lethargic unfocused feeling, no headaches or nausea just a strong need not to be bothered and lay around all morning.
If it wasn't pleasant, not that many people would endure it regularly as there are.
Is the theory here that because the digestive tracks is a large organs filled with blood the resulting ALDH would interact?
My next question is do these, and how many, probiotic bacteria survive the acid wash of the stomach?
Are there studies around this?
As for the expense, I just view it adding a beer to the night. At least where I am beers are generally ~$9 a pop (more once you add tip & tax) so it's about the same. And to be honest, the productivity gain from the next morning not being so rough has generally been worth it.
Take something like Broccomax - or eat lots of Brussels sprouts, and broccoli.
"Not your parents sprouts anymore"
For the record I loved them 30 years ago and still love em.
My recipe is very different to the modern fashion, boiled until mushy with a slice of smokey bacon, drain and eat with butter. They literally melt like butter - delicious.
You won't feel as drunk and will have less of a hangover.
Of all the negatives, I think diminished sleep is the one that doesn’t get enough attention.
It’s superficial sleep at best. You’re up peeing 3,4,5 times a night. You never enter REM sleep. You’re dragging the entire next day. All to do it over again to your body the next day?
Of the people that I know that drink actively almost every day, they look like shit, and lack motivation.
Their body is crying out for rest and better food but they just keep drinking through their signals.
So just like being a parent then.
And drinking lots of water just before sleeping greatly reduces hangovers.
What also works, is drinking in moderation ..
The best use I can think of is for undercover agents to drink heavily and avoid intoxication!
My mother for example hate the feeling of being intoxicated, even a little. So she only drink one glass on occasions and barely finishes it. She would definitely enjoy it more if she could have different wines over the course of a meal. It would also be useful if you want to enjoy the taste of some drinks with alcohol but you need to drive or you are in an on-call schedule.
_But_ they also make you less drunk and making the drunkenness less... pleasant?
Sample size of like... 4 nights out having nomihoudai.
But it's the fun of alcohol!
What'd be amazing would be something that really works against the headaches and/or prevent vomiting. Basically something for the next day or even the next two days (when you get old, if you party too hard it can take two days to feel good again: I hate it so at 50 I very rarely party hard anymore: maybe once a year).
- Alcohol loosens the blood vessels, whereas a lot of the effects of a hangover are caused by the body then "over-constricting" when the aclohol goes away, causing headaches and nausea. The cause of the headache is similar for a brain-freeze from too much ice cream causing the veins in your neck and throat to constrict, though the brain-freeze goes away as you warm back up.
- There's also the dehydration as alcohol throws off the balance of water in your system as it makes you want to pee more, but interferes with the body's ability to actually absorb water.
- Alcohol causes your body to pump out more "feel good" hormones, which then lead to a crash later.
However, people often tend to drink for the "good" effects that this gel prevents. If what you want is alcohol's fun, then you're going to need another cure (essentially an IV drip, and drugs to replace the hormones and loosen your blood vessels - all of which are not readily available for other good reasons).
People go out partying on near-empty stomachs and take crazy amounts of alcoholic drinks with not so much as a drop of water all night; it's no surprise that their bodies react that extremely.
Also, sticking to drinks with low levels of congeners helps immensely. Ethanol is already toxic enough without throwing other more dangerous alcohols into the mix.
Regular beer contains about 20x as much water as it does ethanol (by volume), but apparently that's not enough. It's certainly better than wine, though, which only contains 6-8x the water and an entire catalogue of congeners.
I could see drinking water, then sobering up, and going to sleep could mean water could then be absorbed. That may limit the effects of the dehydration and therefore the hangover.
Also your body's overall health and efficiency probably pays a role. In my teens/20s I could get sloshed and wake up with merely a vague discomfort. In my 30s I started to get actual hangovers. In my 40s its now just awful almost no matter what I do.
On the plus side, I'm saving money drinking less in general...
It's genuinely one of my big wishes! I'd pay 5x the normal price for a bottle of whisky that neither has the "good" nor "bad" parts, as if it was water but with the same taste.
Some is down to the metabolic products of ethanol, specifically aldehydes. There are other alcohols (like tert-Amyl alcohol) that people have used recreationally which don't cause hangovers in the same way.
There are other great reasons not to mess with these substances (tert-Amyl is very long lasting and as little as 30ml might kill you), but they do show that some of the hangover is down to the specifics of ethanol's breakdown in the body.
If you start vomiting then you overdid it. Your body is trying to save you from poisoning. To prevent the headaches just drink lots of water.
For a while it is. But sometimes you don’t want to keep being drunk.
Maybe you want to drive home, or your childcare ends, or you just have other things to do that day.
If I could just end the whole thing at will, including the hangovers you mention, that would be ideal.
(All of this is obviously just for me. Well aware that different things affect different people...differently.)
you sure you didn't just lower your tolerance?
Meh, I like wine more and more and being drunk less and less, one is seriously limiting the other :)
But then again, we're not beer tasters or into craft stuff, so maybe we can't tell.
Not "this is so good you have to try it", but better than a lot of real beers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfiram
(if you take it, you will get sick if you drink alcohol)
Personally, tequila works on me in a similar way when I smell it.