Random Most Effective Hangover Cures (24 items)

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  (#1) Sleep It Off

  If you're lucky enough to catch extra ZZZs after a night of boozing, do it. Alcohol is metabolized at the rate of .015 of blood alcohol concentration (BAC), or roughly one drink every hour, meaning those extra brews can quickly add up. So, if you have the luxury of sleeping through your hang over, consider yourself lucky. Just make sure to keep hydrated once your peepers finally open.
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  (#2) Drinking Electrolytes

  The dreaded hangover headache: experienced by many, friend of none. Why does it feel like there is a tiny elf inside your head pounding at your skull with a hammer? Because your brain is dehydrated. While water does the trick to hydrate, sports drinks like Gatorade and Powerade contain electrolytes (sodium, potassium, and chloride) that help replenish and restore your system levels. The sugar in the drinks gives you carbohydrates for energy.
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  (#3) Eating Greasy Food

  After waking up with a splitting headache, many people feel like shoving something greasy down their gullets as soon as possible, for the best hangover cure. Others don't agree. It seems that eating greasy food before you drink is the key to saving yourself from a hangover. 
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  (#4) Hair of the Dog

  No, Felicia, Bloody Marys don't just exist for the brunch crowd. A new theory supposes that the vodka in a Bloody Mary supplies the body with trace amounts of methanol that it needs after a night of heavy drinking.
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  (#5) Sex

  According to sex scientists (the best kind!), alcohol can lower testosterone, making men want to re-up their hormones. What better way than with a little morning sex? While there's no conclusive evidence that sex can cure a hangover, it definitely takes your mind off the pain.
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  (#6) Saltines

  Plain toast or some saltine crackers will absorb and help process the alcohol remaining in your body. Eating simple carbohydrates will also help raise your blood sugar to battle that tired, groggy feeling.
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  (#7) Pickle Juice

  One of the main reasons people feel so terrible when they’ve spent a night drinking is because alcohol is a diuretic, leaving you feeling dehydrated. Drinking pickle juice helps to replenish your depleted sodium levels. It contains two ingredients that help turn the tide against a hangover - salt and sodium. When it hits your bloodstream, your body starts building up water, solving the dehydration problem. And if pickle juice works for Vinnie Paul from Pantera, then it should work just fine for you.
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  (#8) Pedialyte

  
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  (#9) B-Vitamin Supplement

  NAC is thought to work even better when combined with thiamine, or vitamin B1; vitamin B6 may also help to lessen hangover symptoms. Since alcohol depletes B-vitamin in your body and they're required to help eliminate it from your body, a B-vitamin supplement taken beforehand, as well as the next day, may help.
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  (#10) Sweat It Out!

  One of the most widely believed rumors about curing a hangover is that you can sweat all of the toxins out of your body with exorcise or with a good steam. Most scientists don't believe this to be true.
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  (#11) Sprite

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  (#12) Egg

  • Food

  Eggs are a near-ideal source of nutrition as is, but especially so when you’re hungover. Eggs contain large amounts of cysteine, an amino acid that breaks down the hangover-causing acetaldehyde. Translation: eggs help clean up the remaining toxins in your body.
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  (#13) Coffee

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  (#14) Poutine

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  Oh, Canada! You guys do it right. To top off the last round of LaBatt, Canadians stop in for some poutine - a bowl of thick-cut french fries, with chunks of Canadian cheese curd, smothered in a savory gravy with fresh peppercorns. It's no good being hung over, but if it means you get to shove in your face to make it go away, who wouldn't be all aboot it?
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  (#15) Pretzels and a Banana

  You'll want to replace the salt and potassium your lost after you broke the seal and started peeing every five minutes. A handful of pretzels should salt you back up and a banana can help get some potassium back into your body.
  
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  (#16) Berocca

  Effervescent "vitamin mineral supplements" that "support mental sharpness and physical energy..." What more do you want?
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  (#17) Menudo

  Trouble with your gut? You just need more guts. That's the logic behind hangover cure: Menudo. The innards are boiled with garlic, onion, and sometimes cream. You can even eat it prophylactically to prevent an imminent hangover. Maybe there's something to it - it's also a popular remedy in Turkey and Romania - but honestly, it makes a headache sound not so bad.
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  (#18) Coconut water

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  (#19) Eggs Benedict

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  As the story goes, back in the late 1800s, a well-to-do socialite partied way too hard. The next morning, he asked the restaurant at the Waldorf Astoria to put together this crazy sandwich with a poached egg, ham, and Hollandaise sauce, on top of an English muffin. You're welcome, world.
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  (#20) French onion soup

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  After drinking too much wine, the French usually soothe their upset bellies and heads with a strong onion soup, bread, and cheese. There's no scientific evidence to back this up, but it sounds delicious.
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  (#21) Beet Juice

  This reddish purple elixir is nature’s best liver cleanser and since alcohol is poison to the body, you’re gonna need some cleansing. Beet juice is sweet, packed with wonderful vitamins and minerals, and superbly delicious when juiced along with an apple and some lemon. If you don’t have a juicer, run to your nearest juice bar. Don't worry, they're everywhere.
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  (#22) Congee

  One of the most popular methods for fighting off a hangover in China (besides Sprite) is a meal called “congee,“ a rice porridge that rehydrates the eater. You can add almost anything to your congee, from salted duck eggs and lettuce to various meats and mushrooms.
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  (#23) Wasabi Bath

  While you might think that hangover relief is all about putting new substances into your body, it’s just as much about getting the alcohol out. As much as a third of toxic body waste is removed through the skin (which explains why uncle Pete always smells like a bottle of Scotch) and you can speed that process up by taking a nice soak in your tub or even just taking a hot shower. To help the detoxification process even more, you can pop a spoonful of wasabi powder into your bath or use some wasabi bath salts.
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  (#24) Katerfrühstück

  Belly full of Bitburger? Time for katerfrühstück, or "hangover breakfast." In Germany they jam on plates of rollmops - raw, pickled herring wrapped around pieces of gherkin and onion. On an empty stomach. Supposedly the acid is good for your already acidic stomach.
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  (#25) Umeboshi

  After too much sake, Japanese drinkers eat umeboshi, a pickled, dried ume, which is similar to a plum or apricot. It's not just a little pickled, though. It's really, REALLY pickled. Some steep it in green tea and then drink the thing to make it less concentrated, but it's still horrifically sour (even the milder, non-dried version, umezuke, is hard to swallow).
   

  There's at least a little science behind this one, as the salt in the plum may actually help replenish your depleted electrolytes. But putting something that sour in an already sour stomach? Pass.
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  (#26) The Ol' Armpit Lime

  Supposedly, drinkers in Puerto Rico have figured out how to prevent a hangover. Before an evening of indulgence, they rub a slice of lemon (or lime) into the armpit of their drinking arm. You read that right. It supposedly prevents dehydration.

  Some thoughts:
  1. No way. 
  2. Who has a drinking arm? Haven't they heard of double fisting?
  3. This is definitely a joke, right?
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  (#27) Dried Bull Penis

  This has gone somewhat out of vogue, but in the past, Sicilians with hangovers would gnaw on a good ol' dried bull penis. The assumption was that it restores your virility. Or perhaps your brain just eliminates the hangover as quickly as possible to stop your body from eating any more penis-jerky.
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  (#28) Pellet Tea

  In the Wild West days, hungover cowboys drank a "tea" made of rabbit droppings. If you'd like to try this remedy at home, all you have to do is steep rabbit crap in hot water, and then you're all set.

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