You wake up with a splitting headache, roiling stomach, and the inability to form coherent thoughts.
Perhaps you overdid it just a little last night.
Other studies have shown that nicotine receptors in the brain are related to our subjective response to drinking.
Eating healthy
Wait, what?
How can making healthy food choices possibly be bad for you?
That doesn’t mean you should binge on greasy pizza or Chinese takeout before a night on the town.
Instead, look for healthy sources of fats and oils to eat for your pre-game.
Your stomach (and your head) will thank you in the morning.
As any soda addict can tell you, sugar-filled or carbonated drinks contribute to dehydration.
Alcohol is a diuretic, which makes you urinate more often than your body actually needs to.
As you expel water from your system, your body will become dehydrated unless youcombat the effects with water.
Skipping leg day
That’s right: the amount you exercise can affect your hangover.
The reason ties into the whole dehydration factor we just discussed.
The liver is what primarily breaks down the alcohol and clears it from your system.
By adding an analgesic to the mix, you’re making things harder on your liver.
One especially important thing to remember:nevermix alcohol and Tylenol.
These congeners are a chemical mixture of impurities and often give dark beers and liquors their color.
They also are sometimes purposefully added to alcohol to create certain flavors.
High-congener beverages are known tocause worse hangover symptomswhen compared to drinks with less of them.
What about mixing different kinds of alcohol?
We’ve all heard the “beer before liquor, never been sicker” piece of advice.
While it’s oft-repeated, this old drunk’s tale isn’t actually true.
Studieshave shownthat mixing different kinds of alcohol doesn’t necessarily cause or worsen a hangover.
The myth is likely tied to the effect of the congeners that we just discussed.
