1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff You Should Know 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:16,319 Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is Charles Chuckers Bryant, 5 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: and that means it's the stuff you should know, right, Yes, 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 1: the over twenty one years old Chuck Bryant. Yeah, that's 7 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: a that's a big deal for this one. Chuck. We're 8 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: just gonna go ahead and see o A right now, 9 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: say that this is about drinking, and if you're under 10 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: twenty one, you should not drink. Chuck, have you ever 11 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: consumed an alcoholic beverage? I have over still at c A. 12 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 1: If you're over twenty one, you should drink responsively. Yes, 13 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: don't drink and drive. Um. If you have a problem, 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: uh yeah, heavy machineries a big one. If you have 15 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: a problem, you can contact alcoholics anonymous. Right, I've always 16 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: wanted to test that one. Get really plowed and just 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: sit down behind a bulldozer. I always imagine fork lifts 18 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: with heads, heavy machinery. I go straight to the dozer. So, yes, 19 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 1: I have had an alcoholic beverage before. What was your 20 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: experience with it? Like, did you feel a little light headed, 21 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: a little crazy, a little get inhibited? I wanted to 22 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: kiss somebody? Did you end up kissing anybody? I did? 23 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: I kissed my dog. Didn't you make out with a 24 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 1: friend's sister at a YouTube concert once? I did? Were 25 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: you under the effects of alcohol during that time? I 26 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: was okay, this was gimea break, Chuck. Did you end 27 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: up with a hangover that day? Yes? I did the 28 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: same day the next day? Yeah? Sure? So how did 29 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 1: you feel? I felt? I had a headache, I had 30 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: a poor sense of well being. I've had sensitivity to 31 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: light and sound, diarrhea, loss of appetite, trembling, nausea, fatigue, 32 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 1: you had the whole list, hydration, anxiety, trouble, sleeping, weakness. Yeah, 33 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: that's a bad hangover right there. That's all the symptoms, 34 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: you know. The one that always gets me the worst 35 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: whenever I have a hangover is the loss of the 36 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: sense of well being. I feel like I am right 37 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: there on the edge of danger. Everybody's gunning for me. 38 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: I feel horrible then real, Yeah, it's really bad, it really. 39 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: I've always assumed it affects my serotonin level. Sure, I 40 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: didn't see anything in this article about that, right. I 41 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 1: thought I was gonna have to get taken to the 42 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 1: hospital in Portland, Oregon one time, did you? Yeah? The 43 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: next day Emily asked me as her friend's wedding. She said, Okay, 44 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: do you like need to go to the hospital? And 45 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 1: I went, maybe I was serious. So let's talk about this, chuck. 46 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: What are the mechanisms that lie behind the cursed and 47 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: dreaded hangover? Vice algia? Yeah? Is that the correct pronunciation. 48 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: That's how I took it. That's the medical medical name 49 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: for hangover is vice algia. Yeah, And it comes from 50 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: a Norwegian word for uneasiness following debauchery and a Greek 51 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: word for pain algaia, which is weird. I've never seen 52 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: a Norwegian and Greek put together. I haven't either, But yeah, 53 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: you come up with vice algia? Can I say that 54 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: the Bible verse two? Yeah? Yeah, there's a Bible verse 55 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: that talks about hangovers. It's Isaiah five eleven. Woe unto 56 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: them that rise up early in the morning, that they 57 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: may follow strong drink. In other words, I feel real 58 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: sorry for you that you had to get up early. 59 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: If you got hammered last night, truer words have never 60 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: been written in the Bible, at least translation at least 61 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: translation there. Um. So okay, so we've got that down. 62 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: We have the word origin and a Bible quote as 63 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: this pretty much whenever you talk about a hangover. So 64 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: what's going on there, Chuck, Well, there's a bunch of things. Um, 65 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: let's go ahead and start with vasopressing. Yeah, here's here is, 66 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: by the way, everyone, a cocktail party conversation tidbit. So 67 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: it's your next cocktail party. You might want to just 68 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: bring this up. Okay, it might be kind of depressing 69 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: to bring this up actually a cocktail party. Well, this 70 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: is the This is how you explain breaking the seal, 71 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: which I know that you have experienced. It's crazy once 72 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: you once you urinate, and we're gonna stick to the 73 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: clinical terms here, Chuck, all right, let's keep it above 74 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: the breaking the seal. That's clinical. Um. Once you urinate 75 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: that first time, after you've started drinking, it seems like 76 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: you just keep going and going and going and you 77 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: can't stop, and you actually can't, right right. So vasa pressing, 78 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: that's a pressing. Yes, when you drink booze, uh, it 79 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: enters your bloodstream and the pituitary gland blocks the creation 80 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: of vasso pressing, and without this, your kidney starts sending 81 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 1: water straight to your bladder, basically right to the tune 82 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: of four times more than you actually drink. So you 83 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: drink two fifty milli leaders of alcohol. Uh, you can 84 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: shoot out up to a thousand milli leaders or a leader? 85 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 1: Is that the clinical term to shoot out? Yeah, So 86 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: that's no mistake. If you've ever had a few beers 87 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: and you're thinking, Wow, that's so weird, I use the 88 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: bathroom and now I can't stop. That's v's depressing right there, right, Um, 89 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: and that's called the diuretic effect. Um. As the the 90 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,799 Speaker 1: presence of alcohol increases in the bloodstream, Um, you expel 91 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: a lot more water, right, But you're not just expelling water. Also, 92 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: we should say this leads directly to dehydration. If you're 93 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: expelling four times more liquid than you're consuming, Brother, you're 94 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: getting dehydrated, which is one of the signature results of 95 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: the hangover. And you get the headache because of that 96 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: and other things too. You do and the headache. And 97 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,039 Speaker 1: we've talked about this before. I don't remember where, so 98 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: we probably shouldn't, you know, try to come up with 99 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: a time stamp. But um, when you have a hangover, 100 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 1: your brain actually shrinks. The next day, the other organs 101 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: in your body are like you brain, you've got a 102 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: bunch of water exactly, So a lot of the water 103 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 1: um is shuffled from your brain to other organs, causing 104 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 1: your brain to actually shrink in size, which pulls on 105 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: the membranes that connected to the skull, the meningies. And 106 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: you know, when you have a really had hangover, you 107 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: wake up and you feel like the membranes of your 108 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: skull are being pulled in different So when I read this, 109 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, so that's what that is. Or 110 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: like there's a four hundred pound ham fisted man with 111 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: hair and his knuckles like doing little twirls in your head. 112 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: You know. Have you ever speaking of breaking the seal? 113 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 1: I don't think they did this in Athens at Georgia, 114 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: but I know some friends at Georgia Southern there were 115 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: bars there that had the drink till you pee for 116 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,359 Speaker 1: free promotion? Have you ever heard of those? But it 117 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,840 Speaker 1: sounds awesome. Basically, it like starting at six o'clock, they 118 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: monitor the bathrooms and everyone in the bar gets to 119 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: drink for free until the first person in the bar 120 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: goes to the bathroom. And I don't think they have 121 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: that in Athens, if they didn't when I was there. 122 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: And of course because it's you know, a college, there's 123 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: like dudes peeing in beer pictures in the corner, you know, 124 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: just to keep not to not have to pay the 125 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 1: two others whether or not there's that you know, contest 126 00:06:54,600 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: or promotion. So it's science science. Uh so, okay, that's 127 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: vast oppressing, right, yes, resulting in dehydration. But when you're 128 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: um urinating everywhere every which way, whether it's in a 129 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: beer picture or otherwise, Um, you're also expelling a lot 130 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: of other needed stuff like electrolytes, salt, potassium, salt, potassium, magnesium, 131 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: and these all affect how you're like cells function, how 132 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: your muscle's function, right, and you're getting rid of it 133 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: without putting it back in. So you're gonna feel lousy. Yes, indeed, 134 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: you are going to feel lousy. So you're dehydrated, You've 135 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: lost electrolytes, right, and the electrolyte and balance is really important. Um, 136 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: if you have too much salt in your electrolyte, and 137 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: balance is too high, Uh, you die. Um, if you 138 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: have too little, you get the shakes, the tremors, which 139 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: I understand is the most uncommon symptom of hangovers. Which 140 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: makes me nervous because I get the shakes just about 141 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: every time. The next day, I've never gotten the shakes. 142 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: What I've never got in the shakes. It also points 143 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: out in this article that hangovers are subjective, so for 144 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: each person, you know, they might experience different like oh, 145 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: I've never had a hangover, or when you get the 146 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: shakes and you have a loss of a sense of 147 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: well being. Yeah, that's like Nick Cage and leaving Las 148 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: Vegas kind of wow. Yeah, I've always been like, wow, 149 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: that'd be great to have a grocery cart in a 150 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: liquor store. What a great scene. Should we talk about 151 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: glacogen real quick too? Yeah, that's another thing you lose. Yes, Um, 152 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: the glacogen is a is a key energy source and uh, 153 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,199 Speaker 1: we turns it goes to the liver and turns into glucouse. 154 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 1: Is that correct? Right? Well, the liver turns it into 155 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: glucost and then sends it out like what the heck 156 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,079 Speaker 1: is going on and just does something and all of 157 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: a sudden You've just lost all of your energies. I'll 158 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: just pee everything out just to be sure exactly. Basically, 159 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: it's what's going on, and that actually accounts for like 160 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: the weakness the next day fatigue um. And actually that's 161 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: not that's not the only thing that accounts for fatigue. Um. 162 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: You don't sleep very well after a night of heavy drinking. 163 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 1: Glut to mine. Yes, you have glut to mine, which 164 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 1: is a another it's actually a stimulant um, natural stimulant, yes, 165 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 1: which is the only good kind of stimulant um. And uh, 166 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: when you drink alcohol, the production of this natural stimulant 167 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: is actually blocked. So when you stop drinking e g. 168 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: Go to sleep, your body tries to make up for 169 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: lost time and overproduces glutaman. So means you're not getting 170 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: as gonna sleep exactly. And the next day you also 171 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: feel restless and anxious. Um, maybe you've got the shakes. 172 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: That's another cocktail party tip. If you know that if 173 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,559 Speaker 1: you start saying all these things that your next cocktail party, 174 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: you probably won't be invited back to the next cocktail party. Though, 175 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: you know, I think you can wow some people. It 176 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: depends on how cool your cocktail party. I guess I 177 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: could see them all saying, now, like, why are you 178 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: telling us all these awful things about drinking unless my 179 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: kind of cocktail party, it's great for me. Another one. 180 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 1: Screw glycogen, screw bass repressing. Uh so what else, Josh? Well, 181 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 1: we could talk about the impurities of liquor, the different alcohols. Yeah. 182 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 1: The rule of thumb is the darker the alcohol, the 183 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: more impure it is, and therefore the the heavier the hangover. Yes, 184 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 1: which is why I think everyone pretty much knows that 185 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 1: like your worst alcoholics, they like start drinking every morning 186 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: when they wake up, they're probably drinking vodka. Yes, it's 187 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: actually a good thing to drink if you are an alcoholic, 188 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: because you're going to be able to be as close 189 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: to a function alcoholic as possible. Right. How about that 190 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: study with the bourbon. Yeah, thirty they did study between 191 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: bourbon and vodka, and uh, of the people who drank 192 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: amount of bourbon relative to their body weight had a 193 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,959 Speaker 1: severe hangover, and only three percent had a hangover when 194 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: they drank vodka. That's a big white wine, that kind 195 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: of thing. Um, light run yeah, Jen, Yeah, conversely, dark rum, 196 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 1: it's bad white tequila is good. Basically, if it's dark, 197 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: it's going to kill you. I'm in bad shape then, 198 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: because I'm you know, I mean, I'm a bourbon red 199 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: wine beer guy. That's funny. I'm like the whatever's in 200 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,199 Speaker 1: the glass guy. Right, that's good. You're fun to have 201 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: the cocktail party because you're not picky. No, as long 202 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: as you don't run an ice so you know, as 203 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: long as there's not a cigarette but floating in it, 204 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: I'll think it. And then sometimes even then, I don't 205 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: think that hasn't happened before, Chuck. Basically, what I took 206 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: from this article is when you drink, you are poisoning 207 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: your body through coningers. There's through impurities in the alcohol, 208 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: but also through the body's natural processes of breaking down 209 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: out alcohol too. It Actually there's a there's a byproduct 210 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: produced when the liver metabolizes alcohol, um called acid aldehyde. Yeah, 211 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 1: take this one, because this kind of I read it 212 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: like three times and I was still a little lost. Okay, 213 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: allow me please. So basically, when the liver metabolizes alcohol, 214 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: it produces a byproduct that's a toxin called acid aldehyde, 215 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,679 Speaker 1: and acid aldehyde is actually more toxic to the body 216 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: than alcohol. Itself, which is crazy. But we have natural 217 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: mechanism for neutralizing acid aldehyde called appropriate appropriately enough acid 218 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: aldehyde dehydrogenase appropriately so that stuff goes and attacks the 219 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 1: acid aldehyde. Right. Then we have this other stuff that 220 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: is called glutoth ione, right, and it contains high levels 221 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: of a substance called cysteine, and cysteine actually is attracted 222 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:42,199 Speaker 1: to acid aldehyde. So the two things combine, acid aldehyde 223 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: dehydrogen ase and the cysteine in the glutoth ione uh 224 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: combined to neutralize the acid aldehyde, right, and it does 225 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: it pretty quickly. Um. You you are going to feel 226 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: some ill effects, but the less you drink, the easier 227 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 1: it is for these two substances to neutralize. Byproduct, is 228 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: the alcohol metabolized. Okay, here's the problem. You have a 229 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: limited store of glue tooth ione in your liver, so 230 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: you use it up pretty quick. And women have even 231 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: less than men exactly, which accounts for why women tend 232 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:17,319 Speaker 1: to have more harsh hangovers and harsher hangovers than men, 233 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 1: not just body weight, although that does matter. Um. So 234 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 1: you use up your glue tooth ione stores and once 235 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,320 Speaker 1: you do that, you're blood is just basically circulating this 236 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: toxic acid aldehyde, while the liver generates more glue tooth ione. 237 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: Hence you've got this horrible hangover and why ultimately time 238 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: is the only remedy for it. Yeah, well let's get 239 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:42,079 Speaker 1: to that in a second. Let's get to the remedies. 240 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: Let's talk about liquor before beer, never fear or is 241 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,439 Speaker 1: it the other way around here? Before liquor, never sticker 242 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: or sick. There's you're a little bit of truth to 243 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 1: that turns out because of it when folk totally um, 244 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 1: it turns out that the carbonation and beer speeds up 245 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:00,960 Speaker 1: the absorption of alcohol. So if you start with beer, 246 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 1: your body's gonna have and then move on to liquor, 247 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 1: your body is in fact gonna have a harder time 248 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: processing those toxins. Even though there's a certain age. My 249 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,439 Speaker 1: friend Justin, I you know, Justin, we were talking about 250 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: this a few years ago. Someone was remarking about we 251 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: had a big night out and like, what was it 252 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: liquor before beer? Be before liquor? I can't remember, And 253 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: I just said, you know what doesn't matter anymore, No, 254 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: you're gonna be hurting. You reach a certain age and 255 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: it either doesn't affect you or it's gonna affect you 256 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: no matter what those are college rules. I've noted through 257 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: my own personal observations, um that at about age twenty 258 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:38,479 Speaker 1: four you get as you start getting really severe hangovers. 259 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: I haven't figured out exactly why yet, but that seems 260 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: to be about the age when you switch over from 261 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: I can do this constantly to Oh God, why why 262 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: I've got the shake cause I have a loss of 263 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: sense of well being? Right? Yeah, vomiting diarrhea. I don't 264 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: know why. Maybe that's when puberty ends. There's something to 265 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: do with hormones still floating around in the body. If 266 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: you're puberty into then uh, prebody doesn't in your twenties. 267 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: I pubody ended when I was like fourteen, but it 268 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: started when I was seven. So seven. Uh, where are 269 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: we now? Are we talking about vomiting? Yeah, it turns 270 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: out that that actually does help. And also, chuck, Um, 271 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: since we have a drinking game based on this and 272 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: we're talking about hangovers, allow me, okay, chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck, 273 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: chuck chuck. That should keep them for a little while. 274 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: Go ahead, chuck. Uh alcohol, what's going on there is 275 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 1: it is indeed better to vomit because when alcohol is 276 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: absorbed directly through the stomach. And when that happens, you're 277 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: the lining of your stomach is gonna become irritated and say, hey, 278 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: thanks for putting all this poison in me. And um, 279 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: it's gonna start secreting, secreting hydrochloric acid. Right, and the 280 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: hydrochloric acid is actually what makes you vomit. Um here 281 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: messages to the brain, says the stomach is really connected 282 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: to the brain via hormonal signals, which don't necessarily end 283 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 1: after puberty, right and um, yeah, your stomach says you've 284 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: got to get rid of this stuff. And yeah, and 285 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: it turns out that's you know, you probably shouldn't make 286 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,239 Speaker 1: yourself throw up because it's dangerous. It could become a problem. 287 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: If you're drinking so much and you're making yourself throw up, 288 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: you do have a problem. You should check into a 289 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: clinic or something. Check into Promises in Malibu if you've 290 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: got the cash. But it will make you feel a 291 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 1: little better because obviously your body is not gonna have 292 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: to process whatever alcohol is stolen your stomach. So there 293 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: you have it. Uh, what are we on to now, buddy? 294 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 1: I think we're we kind of nailed what it is. 295 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: So should we talk about some of the cures that 296 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: people spout. Yeah, there are plenty of hangover cures. Everybody's 297 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: got one. Yeah, and actually I'm surprised to find that 298 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: some of them actually are real. Now that you understand 299 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: what causes a hangover, you can actually identify what will 300 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: help here a hangover, sure, because really what's going on 301 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 1: is you've expelled electrolytes. It's biology you've expelled exactly, You've 302 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:13,160 Speaker 1: expelled your natural energy stores. Um, you are dehydrated and 303 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:16,239 Speaker 1: your brain is strung. Yeah, so what do you do 304 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: to make yourself feel better? Chuck? My personal favorite's hair 305 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 1: of the dog. Well, that helped me or not? Uh, 306 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,399 Speaker 1: it will not. You know where that comes from? Uh, 307 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: it's the Bible again, isn't it. No Nazareth medieval times though, 308 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,119 Speaker 1: the hair of the dog that bit you. Supposedly, if 309 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: you got bit by a rabid dog, you would take 310 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 1: some of that dog's hair and apply it to your 311 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: wound and that will cure you. This is the same 312 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: culture that buried a cat at midnight to cure war exactly. 313 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: So just like that is false hair the dog, it's 314 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: faults as well. Having a drink the next day to 315 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:50,640 Speaker 1: make yourself feel a little bit better will not work. 316 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: Might make you feel a bit better in the in 317 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 1: the short term, but ultimately you're just adding more toxins 318 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: that your body is gonna have to process, and you're 319 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,440 Speaker 1: kind of just staving off the inevitable hangover. Unless you 320 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 1: just drink all day again and then you'll have to 321 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:07,199 Speaker 1: hang over the following day. Yeah, exactly. Um, unless you 322 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 1: just keep going until you die and then you won 323 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 1: the game. I was taking a walk with Emily yesterday 324 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,679 Speaker 1: with the dogs the shows how twisted I am? And 325 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: I saw it was eight o'clock in the morning, seven 326 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,239 Speaker 1: thirty in the morning, something like that, And there was 327 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: a guy down the street from us in the parking lot, 328 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: you know, cracking his first King Cobra. And I said, 329 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: you know what, am? I said? Ninety nine times out 330 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: of a hundred, I see those people, and I think, God, 331 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: how could you live your life like just getting bombed 332 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 1: for the moment you wake up every day? I said, 333 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: But every once in a while, I think what a 334 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: way to live? She said? She said, what is wrong 335 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:49,919 Speaker 1: with you? Exactly? Doesn't she well, she doesn't let me 336 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 1: get up and get drunk every day. If that's what 337 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 1: you mean, that's keeping you in line. Okay, she does, 338 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: um chuck. One of the things that kills me is 339 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 1: drinking coffee. I learned a long time ago that if 340 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: I ever have a hangover, I stay away from coffee. 341 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:03,880 Speaker 1: So I'm surprised to find in this article that actually 342 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: it does have some benefits agreed, which are, Uh, it 343 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: will actually um alleviate your headache a little bit because 344 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: it's caffeine and that's a vasso constrictor, so it reduces 345 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: the your blood vessels. It reduces the swelling, so that'll 346 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 1: help a little bit. It'll help cure the headache some. 347 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: But it'll dehydrate you because it's a diuretic because it's 348 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: a diarettice, which is how you really got into this 349 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: trouble in the first place. So stop being stupid. Saying 350 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 1: coffee along with a lot of water might be a 351 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:34,400 Speaker 1: good idea. Possibly, it's just me, right, Okay. So what else? Uh? 352 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: Fatty fatty food, fried food the next day. Yeah, which 353 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 1: is odd because I know I crave fried food the 354 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:47,719 Speaker 1: next day. Cheeseburger, bacon, chili, cheeseburger. It's like two hamburgers. 355 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,400 Speaker 1: A year and they're on hangover days. She doesn't eat 356 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 1: meat beef at all, but when she wakes up with 357 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 1: a really bad hanger, she's like quarter pounder. It's very 358 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: It's strange because obviously she's not the only person who 359 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 1: experiences that craving. But that doesn't necessarily help and could 360 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: actually make you vomit. It could tip the scales when 361 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 1: you've got a bunch of hydrochloric acid in your stomach. 362 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 1: But it could help if you ate a bacon chili 363 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,679 Speaker 1: cheeseburger or two bacon chili cheeseburgers before you started drinking it. 364 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,919 Speaker 1: Why because it contains oil and the fat and the 365 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: grease will line your stomach and absolutely and in fact, 366 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: in the Mediterranean they have long drank a little bit 367 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: of olive oil before imbibing. It's an old thing they do. 368 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: They're not I'm not either. I like ol of o, 369 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,199 Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna drink a tablespoon of it. No 370 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 1: me neither. Okay, Uh, how about a banana. I'm just 371 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,679 Speaker 1: gonna pull that one out of my head, out of 372 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: your banana tree um remedy, yes, okay, loaded with potassium electrolytes. 373 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:54,199 Speaker 1: And because remember you lose potassium, which is an electrolyte, 374 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 1: so if you can remember, restore the balance. So banana 375 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,439 Speaker 1: will help your hangover as well. Eggs, yeah, since we're 376 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 1: on breakfast, because they contain cisteine, right, which is something 377 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 1: that's attracted to acid aldehyde. Right, So eggs in a 378 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: banana and water would be a great way to start 379 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:11,880 Speaker 1: your morning if you had to hang over, Not just water, 380 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 1: but water loaded with sugar and salt. Actually, right, because 381 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,199 Speaker 1: the carbonation it would do the same thing as it 382 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 1: did with the beer before liquor. So you want uncarbonated 383 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: water load of a salt sugar, not a red Bull no, 384 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: because it has caffeine. Not an energy drink. Uncarbonated non 385 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:36,679 Speaker 1: caffeine water with salt and sugar, which I think I 386 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,959 Speaker 1: just described a supports drink, right, A banana and some 387 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,959 Speaker 1: eggs or you know what else you can do instead 388 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:47,159 Speaker 1: of water? Put some fruit juice in there. Fruit juice. 389 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:50,439 Speaker 1: Fruit juice is the kind of the kind of sugar 390 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: you want fruit toase, and studies have shown that it 391 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 1: increases the rate that which your body gets rid of 392 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: the toxins, and uh, that's a good idea. It also 393 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: gives you vitamins of course, Okay, what about um say 394 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 1: etcetera seta menafin a seeda menafin is uh, well, you 395 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,640 Speaker 1: you want to avoid etcetera because has caffeine, right, which 396 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 1: can help. But ultimately, now and a set of menafin 397 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: I believe you don't want to take because that can 398 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: mess with your liver. Ultimately, if you have alcohol in yours, 399 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: if you take a set of mena fin for a hangover, 400 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 1: you are probably going to feel a little better. Actually 401 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,360 Speaker 1: you'll probably feel a lot better. But in the long run, 402 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,160 Speaker 1: your liver is gonna fall apart. Yeah, you're doing your body. Damn, 403 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: You're gonna expel that through your urine. So what you 404 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: want to do is get a non caffeinated anti inflammatory 405 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: prostaglandin inhibitor, which is also known as aspirin, which is good. 406 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 1: So aspirin will help that. It's shown that prostaglandin actually 407 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 1: uh reeks havoc on your body during hangover. So if 408 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 1: you take a prostaglandin inhibitor, you're gonna feel a lot better. 409 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: And apparently there have been studies that show yes, aspirin helps, 410 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 1: especially if you take one before you go to bed. 411 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: And you take two when you wake up, But be 412 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: aware people with tender stomachs often vomit from aspirate. Right, 413 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: you know what my curious let's talk about each other's curious. 414 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,879 Speaker 1: If you got one, Um, surely you do. What do 415 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,919 Speaker 1: I do? You want to hear mine? Yeah? Mine is? 416 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: My deal is I can't sleep in anymore. It doesn't 417 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: matter if I was out till three in the morning. 418 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: I'm still gonna wake up at seven. It's just the 419 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: way it is. When you're old, you'll you'll experience this 420 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,719 Speaker 1: one day. I get up at seven like I normally do, 421 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 1: and I drink I pound like three or four glasses 422 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 1: of water, take a couple of aspirin, and then I 423 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 1: get right back in bed and see if I can 424 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: get like another hour to a sleep, and then I 425 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: wake up in at That works crazy well, especially works 426 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: with advil. If you take a couple of advil and 427 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,400 Speaker 1: you have even like a half hour, preferably an hour 428 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 1: extra to sleep. For some reason, Anville always makes me sleepy. 429 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: It makes me fall asleep very easily. Never it out why, 430 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,159 Speaker 1: But yeah, you wake up an hour later and you 431 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 1: are set. It's a great one because sleep is only real, 432 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: real key to carrying a hangover. They say, yeah, well, time, 433 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 1: well that that's usually what I rely on. It's time, um, 434 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: and I pound a few Coca colas in the morning, 435 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,880 Speaker 1: which is not good for me, but it works, right. 436 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: And then as burn, is that what they say? Yeah? 437 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,920 Speaker 1: And then I don't make eye contact with anybody because 438 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: they're all out to get me. That's how I make 439 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 1: it through the day when I have a hangover. Sure, 440 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 1: And again we should say, please don't find any of 441 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,640 Speaker 1: this funny, entertaining, or amusing if you're twenty one years 442 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: or older. And if you are twenty one years or older, 443 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: please find it amusing responsibly. Uh. We should talk about 444 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 1: some of these over the counter, like anti hangover pills 445 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:49,880 Speaker 1: that you can buy. You heard of these, yeah, like Chasers. Yeah, 446 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: they're they're basically multi vitamins. And here's the deal. Well, 447 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,880 Speaker 1: some are activated carbon, which can work. But here's the deal. 448 00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: If you if you read on the package, it'll say 449 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 1: something like us, um, drink a full glass twel bounced 450 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: glass of water before you start drinking, and take a pill. 451 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: And then after your second or third drink, drink another 452 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 1: glass of water and take another pill and then do 453 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,439 Speaker 1: that again. Then before you go to bed, drink a 454 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,479 Speaker 1: glass of water with a pill, and then wake up 455 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 1: and drink a glass of water with a bill. So 456 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 1: you're basically taking a vitamin downing tons of water, which 457 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 1: is and that's the key is the water. You're hydrating yourself. 458 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,439 Speaker 1: So it's a bit of a rip off, um, but 459 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 1: not necessarily because it is recommended that you do take 460 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,399 Speaker 1: a multi vitamin the next morning. But just take a 461 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: multi vitamin, don't pay for some hangover cure. You know. 462 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: What else helps is to actually be cognizant and not 463 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 1: a total drunk while you're drinking. Yes, um, if you 464 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: drink glass for glass water for alcohol. Number one, it 465 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 1: keeps you hydrated. But number two, it also paces your 466 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,360 Speaker 1: drinking so that your body has more time to process 467 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 1: this alcohol. It's not just like bom bomb. You know. 468 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 1: I've gotten better at that. Oh yeah, sure, I try 469 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: to be. If I have like a big night out, 470 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 1: I try to be pretty aware of uh drinking a 471 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: couple of glasses of water here and there, and I 472 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 1: always will pound two or three glasses before I get 473 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 1: to bed. For you, chuck, it's the way to do it, 474 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,120 Speaker 1: all right. So there you have it. That's the hangover, right. Yeah. 475 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: A couple other things you can do beforehand is eat. Obviously, 476 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: alcohol and the empty stomach is gonna get you there quicker, 477 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: but it will get you sicker and make you feel worse. 478 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,400 Speaker 1: So water, what else you say, multi vitamins? Drinking Moderation, 479 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 1: of course is the key with everything. Watch what you're drinking, 480 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 1: red wine, bourbon. It's gonna make you feel bad. It 481 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: tastes sugary sweet on your tongue, but it'll make you 482 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: feel worse. I'm in trouble though. I wish I could 483 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,879 Speaker 1: learn to drink vodka. I just don't take it. Is 484 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 1: so wonderful, isn't nice? I drink gin and tonics occasionally 485 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 1: during the summertime months, but I can't drink those. Gin 486 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:52,159 Speaker 1: actually makes me crazy. I have a self imposed band 487 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 1: on gin. I won't drink it. I don't allow myself 488 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 1: to drink it because it makes me nuts. And apparently 489 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:02,919 Speaker 1: in the seventeenth century, uh, the UK actually banned or 490 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 1: I should say England banned because nuts. Yeah yeah, so 491 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 1: jin was banned in England for a little while because 492 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: people went like I did. Sure, you know, different alcohols 493 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 1: through that tequila is notorious for making people violent and 494 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: the act out of sorts. Never had a problem with tequila, 495 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 1: I mean neither. My buddy Scottie has a red wine thing. 496 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:28,160 Speaker 1: Completely personality shift when he drinks it, really but yeah, 497 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: it becomes a completely different person. You know, Alexander the 498 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:35,439 Speaker 1: Great died from a red wine drinking competition. One of 499 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: his soldiers challenged into it and they apparently drank like 500 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 1: five million gallons apiece. And Alexander is a great one 501 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 1: off and died. Boy. 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Okay, Josh, 521 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this. Uh, don't kill me. I'm just 522 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 1: the enumerator. This is a good one. Hi, guys, hope 523 00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: this finds you well. My name is Mark and I 524 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: live in fish Kill, New York, which is an interesting town. 525 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: I was listening to the Gross National Happiness podcast and 526 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 1: you mentioned the census worker being killed. I thought i'd 527 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: send an email. I was a Census Bureau worker in 528 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 1: two thousand. It was I was a care free nineteen 529 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 1: year old on summer break. My friends and I saw 530 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: the ad in the paper and took the exam and 531 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 1: became official enumerators, including a shiny plastic badge from the 532 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: Treasury Department to boot. He says, So our task was 533 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: a travel door to door and talked to the people 534 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: who didn't return their survey. Some people got the short form, 535 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: some got the long form and former. I remember the 536 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: forms were assigned at random. Usually the long formers didn't 537 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: mail him back in, and uh that's who they usually 538 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 1: had to a confront, shakedown and shake him down. Uh. 539 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,480 Speaker 1: People were downright mean when I knocked on their door. 540 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: One this is a good one. One man asked me 541 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 1: to hold on for a second. He closed the door, 542 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: and within a few minutes I heard the garage door 543 00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: open and he drove out and waved goodbye. Such a 544 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: jerky move. One woman answered the door with a baby 545 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,280 Speaker 1: in her arms, shouting something at me. I heard dogs barking, 546 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 1: and the next thing I knew, she had let the 547 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 1: dogs loose on us, and I was running safely back 548 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 1: to my h the safety of my Buick Regal. I 549 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: quickly learned my lesson, and when someone would open the 550 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 1: door and give me the skinny on their neighbors who 551 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: didn't mail their forms back in, I was happy. And 552 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: I was even happier when it was a grandma who 553 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: would offer me a cold drink, Because you know, the 554 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 1: old folks, they're just like, come on in, let's talk 555 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:34,000 Speaker 1: for a while. Exactly Um I did not know, however, 556 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,080 Speaker 1: that uh enumerators were killed. I must have missed that 557 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: part of the training. Uh. Most of the rants would 558 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: be anti government. They would say I was the man 559 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,959 Speaker 1: sold to get off their property and all the expletives 560 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 1: that go with it. It's not be it's not easy 561 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 1: being in enumerator. So give them a shout out. So 562 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: shout out to all you enumerators out there. And that's 563 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 1: pretty much it. He uh said, I thought i'd chime in. 564 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 1: Actually I was chiming in this morning in the car 565 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: and then realized that I was alone. Mark, so lonely. Mark, 566 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: the former enumerator is a funny guy, and he says, 567 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 1: by the way, podcast suggestion how Hippie Rob works. Oh 568 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 1: that's a good one. That would be a great one. 569 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: That audio trying to track them down. Sure, yeah, so 570 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: thanks Mark, and good luck if you enumerate in the future. 571 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: And all you enumerators out there, accounting heads, I'm sorry, 572 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 1: I didn't know it's so rough on you. And uh, 573 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 1: let's see if you're an numerator or a denominator or 574 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 1: you know the current whereabouts of Hippie Rob put in 575 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 1: an email to stuff Podcast at how Stuff Works dot com. 576 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 1: For more on this and thousands of other topics. Is 577 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 1: that how stuff works dot Com. Want more how stuff works, 578 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: check out our blogs on the house. 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