2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
During the holiday season, throbbing head, dry mouth and sensitive stomach are common pictures. Yes, it's a hangover. A new discovery by experts in this field can protect us from this unpleasant feeling.
Alcohol is a diuretic, which means that it causes urination. It causes dehydration, which leads to symptoms such as headaches, dry mouth, decreased concentration and irritability. At the same time, the body produces too much insulin in response to the high amount of sugar in alcohol and blood sugar levels drop to critical levels.
The result is a throbbing head and drunken hunger. Alcohol also irritates the stomach, disrupts sleep, causing nausea and feeling very tired the next day.
In general, there are people who are immune to a hangover. This is largely due to the fact that they are less prone to headaches when dehydrated. The others are less sensitive to the effects of acetaldehyde, the toxic substance that is produced when alcohol is first absorbed by the liver.
On the other hand, there are entire ethnic groups that suffer much more from heavy alcohol consumption than others. Indigenous people in East Asian countries, for example, have very low levels of the enzyme that breaks down acetaldehyde. For this reason, they get drunk faster and have a strong hangover.
When we drink, it is good not to do it on an empty stomach. Food slows down the rate at which alcohol enters the body. If you drink fat before drinking alcohol, once in the duodenum, they slow down the emptying of the stomach and so the drink will not be so easily released from the stomach.
This ensures slow drinking and a significantly lighter hangover. In some cultures it is common practice to drink olive oil before such a binge.
The same goes for mashed potatoes. Some believe that if you eat two spoons of mashed potatoes before drinking, there is no hangover. In this case, the main role is played by the fat in the butter, which is taken along with the potatoes, so as not to get drunk too quickly.
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