#congeners

Avoid drinks with congeners. It will make your life a living hell for days. It won't matter if you had a greasy burger or pizza the night of. YOU. WILL. SUFFER.

Drink water in-between each alcoholic drink. Drink water/electrolytes before bed. You can make an electrolyte mix and drink that when you come home.

Don't mix alcohols. Wine with bourbon whiskey and a side of tequila? Throw in a little cognac for fun? Do it only if you hate yourself and want to SUFFER.

Sleep. Just sleep most of the shitty minutes, hours, days away.

Hydrate. HYDRATE. Before, during, after. Water and electrolytes are your friends.

"After you drink alcohol, methanol is converted into formaldehyde, a toxic compound that could be the cause of some hangover symptoms" Yeah I didn't plan on introducing formaldehyde into my body until body preservation after death but poisoning myself because I'm able to buy alcohol now was a rookie move.

Drinking alcohol can prevent the conversion of methanol to formaldehyde, which could reduce some hangover symptoms." I did not try this method. I said fuck it and had some Powerade.

"Some supplements, including red ginseng, prickly pear, ginger, borage oil and eleuthero, have been studied for their ability to decrease hangover symptoms." I didn't have any of these so fml.

"Through the process of ethanol fermentation, sugars are converted into carbon dioxide and ethanol, also known as alcohol." Just say I poisoned myself AND GO.

Motivated By Curiosity And A Desire For The Truth – Part Thirty Four

Is there anything in grape or grain, but never the twain?

It has always struck me that there is something of the puritan about a hangover. After all, you pay at leisure for some momentary pleasure. Oscar Wilde, perhaps, got it right; moderation in everything, including moderation.

Seasoned topers have their own tried and tested methods of avoiding hangovers. Mine is to stick to one type of…

congeners,

a thing or person of the same kind or category as another.a minor chemical constituent, especially one which gives a distinctive character to a wine or spirit or is responsible for some of its physiological effects.

a member of the same taxonomic genus as another plant or animal a person, organism, or thing resembling another in nature or action the New England private schools and their congeners west of the Alleghenies —Oliver La Farge

In the alcoholic beverages industry, congeners are substances, other than the desired type of alcohol, ethanol, produced during fermentation. These substances include small amounts of chemicals such as methanol and other alcohols (known as fusel alcohols), acetone, acetaldehyde, esters, tannins, and aldehydes

Many people believe that mixing beer with liquor will make them sick and give them a bad hangover. There is some truth to this. After all, if you drink too much of alcohol, you would definitely get sick. It’s inevitable.

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