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New gel breaks down alcohol in the body

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Re: New gel breaks down alcohol in the body

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Sulforaphane. Take something like Broccomax - or eat lots of Brussels sprouts, and broccoli.

Should I take it when I'm ready to sober up or before drinking as well if I want to make sure I don't get too drunk but still have a good buzz?

Take it a couple of hours before drinking.

You won't feel as drunk and will have less of a hangover.

Re: New gel breaks down alcohol in the body

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The hardest part of reducing my alcohol consumption is that I love red wine so much. The flavor, the aroma, the acidity, everything. I have stopped drinking all alcohol except red wine because of the health effects. I would be delighted to have a way to drink wine without any intoxication.

Red wine being healthy is a myth. But misunderstood, see below…

GP is saying they have stopped drinking most alcohol (all except red wine) because of the [negative] health effects.

Re: New gel breaks down alcohol in the body

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I wonder how that would affect the calories of the alcohol. Apparently the ethanol gets broken down into acetic acid, which I believe can't be digested further? Does that mean you also wouldn't gain weight when drinking dry beer or wine?

EDIT: Apparently acetic acid _does_ have calories. Didn't know that.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Should I take it when I'm ready to sober up or before drinking as well if I want to make sure I don't get too drunk but still have a good buzz?

Take it a couple of hours before drinking. You won't feel as drunk and will have less of a hangover.

Thanks, I'll give it a go.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Should I take it when I'm ready to sober up or before drinking as well if I want to make sure I don't get too drunk but still have a good buzz?

Take it a couple of hours before drinking. You won't feel as drunk and will have less of a hangover.

What about all the other negative impacts though - like liver impact and blood pressure. Isn’t it better to just moderate your drinking rather than drinking to excess and then dialing back the feel of it with broccoli?

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Something to sober you up if you're already drunk would be amazing, but I don't think this will do that

> Something to sober you up if you're already drunk would be amazing ... But it's the fun of alcohol! What'd be amazing would be something that really works against the headaches and/or prevent vomiting. Basically something for the next day or even the next two days (when you get old, if you party too hard it can take two days to feel good again: I hate it so at 50 I very rarely party hard anymore: maybe once a year)…

I find marijuana to be the fun of alcohol without the impacts you mention.

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If you're an alcoholic, and your body is physically dependent on alcohol consumption, would this allow you to satisfy your physical cravings without the deleterious effects normally associated with alcohol addiction? Kind of like how a nicotine patch helps satisfy the physical addiction?

>> breaks down alcohol in the gastrointestinal tract without harming the body. Likely no. This stuff will destroy the alcohol before it enters the bloodstream. So it sounds useful to stop people absorbing more alcohol (pumping the stomach situations) but won't do much for alcohol already in the blood and causing effects in the body.

Woudn't people just consume more alcohol to compensate the one destroyed by this invention? My guess is that some persons drink until they are drunk, not until they took N glasses of drinks.

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Something to sober you up if you're already drunk would be amazing, but I don't think this will do that

Dihydromyricetin[1] can accomplish this remarkably effectively. It's available on Amazon. Also works great for hangovers. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3292407/

I learned about this and it does work in my experience, best if taken both at the beginning and end of the night.

While it doesn’t alleviate all of the hangover symptoms it does nearly eliminate all of the most unpleasant ones.

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Something to sober you up if you're already drunk would be amazing, but I don't think this will do that

Dihydromyricetin[1] can accomplish this remarkably effectively. It's available on Amazon. Also works great for hangovers. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3292407/

Great suggestion. There is also Kislip, which seems to be based on probiotics and, like DHM, also helps metabolize acetaldehyde. Acetium (a Finnish product) also claims to lower acetaldehyde, but that might be a localized effect (mouth/nasopharynx + GI tract).

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Take it a couple of hours before drinking. You won't feel as drunk and will have less of a hangover.

What about all the other negative impacts though - like liver impact and blood pressure. Isn’t it better to just moderate your drinking rather than drinking to excess and then dialing back the feel of it with broccoli?

Probably.
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