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Re: Top hangover cures?
« on: December 31, 2004, 06:07:37 PM »
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Star69 wrote:
Ok, forgot the water, but hangovers aren't just caused by dehydration, although that is the major contributor.


Yep, hangovers are partly caused by toxins produced by the breakdown of alcohols in the liver. Ethanol is a poison, most people don't seem to realise that.

Plenty of fluids, some rest, and some aspirin is the best cure. Eating also helps by shifting the body's funtions to digestion rather than making more toxins.
 

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Re: Top hangover cures?
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2004, 07:45:27 PM »
Yes, tea is good.

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Re: Top hangover cures?
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2005, 05:59:17 PM »
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Cymric wrote:
Since you are a chemist, consider the following: ethanol is readily transformed into ethanal, which is the nasty chemical your body doesn't respond well to---and also causes hangover symptoms. (I was taught however that dehydration is the main cause of heangovers.) Ethanal is catalytically broken down by means of a copper-containing peptide. Imagine what would happen if you fed a heavy drinker a small dose of a very strongly copper-complexing compound, say EDTA or a derivative.


I know EDTA is already used in medicine to complex with metals, in coronary patients at least, so it could work in theory. Supposing it actually did work and it inhibited the action of the enzyme responsible for oxidising ethanol. The overall effect on the body from ethanol then would be much the same as for other members of the primary alcohol family, which we have no enzymes to protect against: that is, blindness, CNS damage, liver scarring, and probable death. Dying is one way to cure a hangover I suppose... ;)
 

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Re: Top hangover cures?
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2005, 11:56:55 PM »
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speelgoedmannetje wrote:
but saying the pubs are a dissappointment is really an understatement.... I mean, it was hard to find a pub wich wasn't lit by TL tubes, and being decorated with a big telly tuned on some lousy music channel


Student pubs are like that. Were you in Glasgow, or Edinburgh? Sounds like Cowcaddens.

(Find a nice pub with a big picture of King Billy crossing the Boyne behind the bar, I'm sure you'll be welcomed. ;-) )