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Alcohol is a solvent.
So is water, btw.
Can you compare the toxicity per ounce?
New gel breaks down alcohol in the body
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Which are the pleasant hangover symptoms?
Moderate lethargy, satisfaction from eating fatty and protein rich foods, things like that. If it wasn't pleasant, not that many people would endure it regularly as there are.
…people are generally drinking for the immediate effects, not the hangover.
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#213I've always been slightly surprised that there have been no breakthroughs on ways to sober up, and especially on ways to feel less of the effects the next day. Yes it would be a worthy thing for society, but also, whoever achieves it would make vast amounts of money.
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Zbiotics gives you genetically modified probiotic bacteria that secrete ALDH into your gut.
I'm not sure how that's helpful. It looks like ALDH is responsible for breaking down acetaldehyde. However, the pathway for ethanol to become acetaldehyde happens primarily in the liver with ADH. So while this may flood your stomach with ALDH, that's mainly only useful in the blood stream after alcohol is metabolized right? Is the theory here that because the digestive tracks is a large organs filled with blood the r…
I think most of the ALDH from the stomach/LI would end up in the liver though.
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#215Something 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/
This is an animal study (rats). Use on your own risk.
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> 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.
Eh, maybe for some. Alcohol has anti-anxiety effects and "loosens" me up. Cannabis has a pretty good track record of making me anxious, even in small amounts. And while it can make me feel comfortable just chilling out, it's not the same sort of mental relaxation and it doesn't work as a social lubricant.
(All of this is obviously just for me. Well aware that different things affect different people...differently.)
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#217I've always been slightly surprised that there have been no breakthroughs on ways to sober up, and especially on ways to feel less of the effects the next day. Yes it would be a worthy thing for society, but also, whoever achieves it would make vast amounts of money.
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What we really need is something that helps quickly break down acetaldehyde, which is what alcohol is broken down to in your bloodstream and is responsible for all the negative side effects.
Check out a product named ZBiotics [1] which claims to do this. I can't tell you that it for certain works as advertised, but between myself and several other people now in my friend group, all but one swears by the results in terms of the morning after. [1] https://zbiotics.com
It's really expensive. Would eating natto work?
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
Moderate lethargy, satisfaction from eating fatty and protein rich foods, things like that. If it wasn't pleasant, not that many people would endure it regularly as there are.
…people are generally drinking for the immediate effects, not the hangover.
Sure, and generally you don't drink enough to get a hangover so I fail to see the relevance.
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#220Anything you can do with a magic chemical you can do with preparation. Here’s a mind-blowing option. Stop drinking and then you don’t have to deal with:
The fact that it’s killing you.
The fact that you might kill somebody else while driving.
The latest science says the safe number of drinks might be one. Per week. If you’re not keeping it to that you’re harming your health. (And if you’re keeping it to one per week there’s no need to break it down in the body) just keep it out of there to begin with.