**The Quest for the Hangover Cure: Current Knowledge and Future Hopes**
**Introduction: The Hangover Crisis**
Hangovers are more than just a morning inconvenience; they're a significant economic burden. According to estimates, hangovers cost companies over $48 billion annually due to sick days and decreased productivity. As Anthony from D News highlights, the impact of hangovers extends beyond personal discomfort, affecting workplaces and economies worldwide. Despite their prevalence, finding a definitive cure remains elusive, with current solutions often relying on folklore or basic remedies.
**Understanding the Causes of Hangovers**
The physical toll of alcohol consumption is well-documented. Alcohol dehydrates the body, increases stomach acid production, leading to nausea, and causes blood sugar levels to drop, resulting in weakness and shakiness. Additionally, the expansion of blood vessels contributes to pounding headaches. The primary culprits are congeners, compounds that give different alcohols their unique flavors. Darker spirits like bourbon and whiskey, along with dark beers, contain higher concentrations of these compounds, exacerbating hangover symptoms.
**Current Remedies: Folklore and Limited Solutions**
While science hasn't yet delivered a miracle cure, various remedies have emerged from folklore and traditional practices. A greasy or fatty meal in the morning helps replenish salts and proteins depleted by alcohol. Fruit juice restores missing sugars, electrolytes, and vitamins, while eggs provide cysteine, aiding toxin elimination. However, these solutions offer temporary relief at best, as they address symptoms rather than curing the root cause. Over-the-counter hangover pills are often dismissed as glorified multivitamins, highlighting the need for more effective treatments.
**Scientific Breakthroughs: A Glimmer of Hope**
Despite societal hesitations about promoting excessive drinking, researchers like Allison Mitchell from UC Davis argue that studying hangovers could offer insights into metabolism, the immune system, and gastrointestinal health. Recent advancements include experiments at UCLA and USC, where mice were given nanocapsules containing enzymes to metabolize alcohol. This innovation could potentially allow individuals to enjoy drinks without facing the aftermath, though it remains in experimental stages.
**Home Remedies and Personal Strategies**
While science works towards a cure, practical steps can mitigate hangover effects. Anthony recommends drinking water before bed and consuming eggs in the morning. Other suggestions include hydrating throughout the night and avoiding excessive alcohol intake. Although the best solution is to abstain from drinking, these tips provide a pathway for managing symptoms when indulgence occurs.
**Conclusion: The Road Ahead**
The quest for a hangover cure is ongoing, with promising research on the horizon. Until science delivers, individuals can employ tried-and-true remedies and make informed choices about their alcohol consumption. As Anthony humorously notes, while he's not your real mom, taking precautions can make all the difference. Stay hydrated, consider your options, and perhaps rethink that extra drink—your body will thank you.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enoh man this hangover science where are you now that I need you most Anthony here for D news and there is no real cure for a hangover seriously there is not but scientists are arguing that it's about time to find one see hangovers are estimated to cost us companies over $48 billion every year how well people taking sick days making dumb mistakes cuz they're not feeling well that sort of thing we know a ton of stuff about the effects of alcohol on the body but we've never looked much into the hangover scientifically anyway we know what it is about them that makes us feel awful alcohol dehydrates us it increases the production of stomach acid which makes us nauseous it makes your blood sugar fall which is where all that weakness and shakiness comes from it also makes your blood vessels expand which turns into that pounding headache we even know what the main ingredient in alcohol is that causes all of these nasty symptoms congeners congeners are what give different alcohols their flavor and there are more of them in dark Liquors like bourbon and whiskey and dark beers but so far all the cures we have for hangovers are either folklore or con Artistry or water see eating a greasy or fatty meal in the morning seems to be what most people do which makes sense because alcohol saps your body of needed salts and proteins drinking fruit juice will give you back a bunch of your missing sugars and electrolytes and vitamins eggs are phenomenal for replacing cysteine which is this super awesome chemical that your body uses to clean out toxins so all this stuff puts a bunch of missing things back into your body but you'll probably just feel bad again in 15 to 20 minutes because the damage is already done so why don't we have a hangover pill and no the ones that the drugstore don't count because they are basically glorified multivitamins Allison Mitchell a professor at UC Davis thinks that science shies away from curing The Hangover because no one wants to promote outof control drinking but she also says that a hangover is this interesting metabolic Perfect Storm of Systems Failing and that if we studied it it would improve our understanding of the immune system the metabolism and our gastrointestinal system curing hangovers might just be the most important thing that science can do okay I'm over exaggerating there is one major scientific advancement towards eliminating The Hangover researchers at UCLA and USC basically got a bunch of mice drunk and then injected them with Nano capsules full of enzymes that the body uses to metabolize alcohol the blood alcohol content in the mice began to fall super quickly the thought is that in the future you'd be able to have a few drinks then take a pill that breaks down the alcohol before your liver has to meaning your body doesn't have to use a ton of resources to break it down on its own boom no hangovers until then the best you can do is have a fatty meal before you go out drinking and then have a lot of water that night well the actual best thing you can do is not drink but I'm not your real mom so I'm not going to get all judgy on you or whatever what's your favorite home hangover remedy I always drink about a half a gallon of water before I go to bed and then eat all of the eggs in the morning all of them let me know what you do and subscribe for more D newsoh man this hangover science where are you now that I need you most Anthony here for D news and there is no real cure for a hangover seriously there is not but scientists are arguing that it's about time to find one see hangovers are estimated to cost us companies over $48 billion every year how well people taking sick days making dumb mistakes cuz they're not feeling well that sort of thing we know a ton of stuff about the effects of alcohol on the body but we've never looked much into the hangover scientifically anyway we know what it is about them that makes us feel awful alcohol dehydrates us it increases the production of stomach acid which makes us nauseous it makes your blood sugar fall which is where all that weakness and shakiness comes from it also makes your blood vessels expand which turns into that pounding headache we even know what the main ingredient in alcohol is that causes all of these nasty symptoms congeners congeners are what give different alcohols their flavor and there are more of them in dark Liquors like bourbon and whiskey and dark beers but so far all the cures we have for hangovers are either folklore or con Artistry or water see eating a greasy or fatty meal in the morning seems to be what most people do which makes sense because alcohol saps your body of needed salts and proteins drinking fruit juice will give you back a bunch of your missing sugars and electrolytes and vitamins eggs are phenomenal for replacing cysteine which is this super awesome chemical that your body uses to clean out toxins so all this stuff puts a bunch of missing things back into your body but you'll probably just feel bad again in 15 to 20 minutes because the damage is already done so why don't we have a hangover pill and no the ones that the drugstore don't count because they are basically glorified multivitamins Allison Mitchell a professor at UC Davis thinks that science shies away from curing The Hangover because no one wants to promote outof control drinking but she also says that a hangover is this interesting metabolic Perfect Storm of Systems Failing and that if we studied it it would improve our understanding of the immune system the metabolism and our gastrointestinal system curing hangovers might just be the most important thing that science can do okay I'm over exaggerating there is one major scientific advancement towards eliminating The Hangover researchers at UCLA and USC basically got a bunch of mice drunk and then injected them with Nano capsules full of enzymes that the body uses to metabolize alcohol the blood alcohol content in the mice began to fall super quickly the thought is that in the future you'd be able to have a few drinks then take a pill that breaks down the alcohol before your liver has to meaning your body doesn't have to use a ton of resources to break it down on its own boom no hangovers until then the best you can do is have a fatty meal before you go out drinking and then have a lot of water that night well the actual best thing you can do is not drink but I'm not your real mom so I'm not going to get all judgy on you or whatever what's your favorite home hangover remedy I always drink about a half a gallon of water before I go to bed and then eat all of the eggs in the morning all of them let me know what you do and subscribe for more D news\n"
