Monday, November 2, 2009

A Real Hangover Cure?

This is my first post.

I stumbled across a page on Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute, called Living with Alcohol. It makes the claim that most of alcohol's toxic effects are caused by one of its metabolites. The author, Steven Fowkes, cites a study that shows how Vitamin C supplementation in rats prevented swimming impairment from alcohol after the alcohol had been metabolized.

He, himself, apparentally takes 200 mg cysteine, a chemical which "cleans up" acetaldehyde, one dangerous alcohol metabolite, along with 600 mg Vitamin C once before drinking, once for each drink, and once after.

The physiological explanations he provides seem plausible, so it might be worth a try. Let me know if you end up testing it out.

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