Alcohol Test: Does Eating Yeast Keep You From Getting Drunk?
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The water drink works extremely well for every person I know. If you simply have a large glass of water after every drink, then, in addition to slightly diluting the alcohol you are drinking, it also cuts in half the amount of alcohol you drink that night - presuming you don't speed up your liquid consumption to accommodate.
Perhaps Koch's many years of drinking, and repeatedly using this trick, have resulted in a unique personal gastrointestinal flora that does react to that particular mix of inputs with accelerated alcohol metabolism.
Since people can be infected with microorganisms that create alcohol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-brewery_syndrome), it seems the reverse should be possible, too.
Perhaps the pre-drink concoction even serves as a trained signal, like Pavlov's bell, triggering Koch's flora or liver to accelerate alcohol metabolism processes in anticipation.
Inviting Koch in for tests might provide the cheapest initial indicator whether these could be a possibility.
If you want to drink and not feel bad (in order of efficacy) * exercise * drink water * eat well * vitamin b (this what the yeast provides)
Exercise helps you metabolize everything you throw at your body, water keeps those chemical reactions running smoothly and allows the kidneys to remove everything they want to. Eating well, more of the same. Alcohol strips out vitamin b, which we need to metabolize sugar. That headache you have the next morning is a no-sugar headache. Bingeing on sugar is one way, having an over abundance of vitamin b is another. You piss out vitamin b, can't keep it in your system. So a couple hours before drinking take a tab, with water AND food. And then do the same at the end of the night. Don't take it on an empty stomach, will make you sick.
Run some of your own science on this advice. Be active and drink well!
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Most people in the booze business have a BAC over 0.04 all the time. This was science done by non-scientists.
If you're not deficient in a vitamin, taking additional doses probably won't give any benefit.
Belief in vitamin B helping with hangovers usually leads back to this study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4588294
but I wouldn't personally put much trust in studies from the 1970's about Pyritinol (B6) preventing hangovers. Subsequent studies have failed to reproduce the results. And large unnecessary doses of Pyritinol may lead to cholestatic hepatitis and other issues so exercise caution.
They couldn't even manage to compare yogurt with yeast vs yogurt without?
http://www.businessinsider.com/yeast-key-to-drinking-without...
You can get it from Korea.
Your liver rapidly uses up glycogen reserves while detoxifying alcohol, easily leaving you a bit hypoglycemic. The fructose in sucrose powerfully replenishes glycogen.
The sugar advantage really is very noticeable if you experiment. You'll sober up quicker from a screwdriver than from a glass of wine.
Is that supposed to make the homeopathy more effective? :)
I was surprised that something so benign and unnoticeable during normal life could cause such a painfully upset stomach and aches in my gut area. It felt like being poisoned. I tried several times with different brands of milk thistle, too.