Posted on 10/10/2013 10:41:00 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The lemon-lime soda seems to help the body better metabolize alcohol, according to Chinese researchers. Plain soda water had a similar effect.
If you're searching for the magical elixir to cure a hangover, Chinese researchers may have found it. The solution: lemon-lime flavored soda Sprite. But if you prefer to skip the sweet stuff, soda water is a good alternative, findings showed.
Some of the adverse effects of alcohol are thought to be caused not by the alcohol itself but by the process of the body trying to break down the alcohol.
After drinking, the body goes through two stages of a metabolic process to break down ethanol. First the liver metabolizes it into acetaldehyde by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and then into acetate by aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH). Unlike acetaldehyde, acetate is considered harmless and may even be responsible for some of the positive health benefits of alcohol consumption.
But exposing the body to acetaldehyde actually causes the symptoms of a hangover, including nausea and a pounding headache.
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The best hangover cure? Two that I know of from my days of nipping the hair of the dog. First one is, have another drink. The second, stay drunk.
23 years of ‘’24s’’ for me.
Got to get something on your stomach first, such as a bag of Krystal burgers.
Drinking Sprite, or any other softdrink, instead of ETOH will result in no hangover. It’s amazing. :’) Thanks nickcarraway.
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