curing hangover

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After reading “How Can I avoid a holiday hangover”, I agreed with what you said about curing a hangover. Being a current binge drinking student, there are a couple ways that I have found prevent hangovers.

  1. Drink a liter of water before going to bed (don’t do this if you have issues with pissing the bed)
  2. Eat some carbs before going to bed
  3. Take vitamin B12 the next morning or that night if you remember
  4. Take Milk Thistle regularly (increases bile production and helps process alcohol)
  5. Take antioxidents regularly (help prevent liver damage and brain damage due to alcohol and get rid of free radicals).

For hardcore hangovers, there are a coupld of things to do:

  1. Workout-gets the blood flowing and gets the adrenalin and endorphines going (sucks but works)
  2. Jump in ice cold water (probably also gets your adrenalin pumpin)

If none of these work, start drinking again-always works

Good luck!!

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