WEBVTT - What is a hangover, really? 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.040 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:07.480 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff You Should Know 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:16.319 from house Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.560 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is Charles Chuckers Bryant, 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:23.640 and that means it's the stuff you should know, right, Yes, 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.760 the over twenty one years old Chuck Bryant. Yeah, that's 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:28.720 a that's a big deal for this one. Chuck. We're 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:30.280 just gonna go ahead and see o A right now, 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.640 say that this is about drinking, and if you're under 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:35.920 twenty one, you should not drink. Chuck, have you ever 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:40.640 consumed an alcoholic beverage? I have over still at c A. 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.560 If you're over twenty one, you should drink responsively. Yes, 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.600 don't drink and drive. Um. If you have a problem, 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.440 uh yeah, heavy machineries a big one. If you have 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.720 a problem, you can contact alcoholics anonymous. Right, I've always 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.480 wanted to test that one. Get really plowed and just 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:00.280 sit down behind a bulldozer. I always imagine fork lifts 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.760 with heads, heavy machinery. I go straight to the dozer. So, yes, 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.360 I have had an alcoholic beverage before. What was your 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.319 experience with it? Like, did you feel a little light headed, 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.480 a little crazy, a little get inhibited? I wanted to 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.080 kiss somebody? Did you end up kissing anybody? I did? 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.040 I kissed my dog. Didn't you make out with a 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.480 friend's sister at a YouTube concert once? I did? Were 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.280 you under the effects of alcohol during that time? I 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:29.440 was okay, this was gimea break, Chuck. Did you end 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.720 up with a hangover that day? Yes? I did the 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.560 same day the next day? Yeah? Sure? So how did 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.959 you feel? I felt? I had a headache, I had 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.480 a poor sense of well being. I've had sensitivity to 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.400 light and sound, diarrhea, loss of appetite, trembling, nausea, fatigue, 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:52.040 you had the whole list, hydration, anxiety, trouble, sleeping, weakness. Yeah, 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.640 that's a bad hangover right there. That's all the symptoms, 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.440 you know. The one that always gets me the worst 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.520 whenever I have a hangover is the loss of the 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.600 sense of well being. I feel like I am right 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.000 there on the edge of danger. Everybody's gunning for me. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.320 I feel horrible then real, Yeah, it's really bad, it really. 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.400 I've always assumed it affects my serotonin level. Sure, I 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.480 didn't see anything in this article about that, right. I 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.080 thought I was gonna have to get taken to the 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.800 hospital in Portland, Oregon one time, did you? Yeah? The 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.240 next day Emily asked me as her friend's wedding. She said, Okay, 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:24.600 do you like need to go to the hospital? And 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:29.919 I went, maybe I was serious. So let's talk about this, chuck. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:35.280 What are the mechanisms that lie behind the cursed and 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:42.000 dreaded hangover? Vice algia? Yeah? Is that the correct pronunciation. 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.440 That's how I took it. That's the medical medical name 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.560 for hangover is vice algia. Yeah, And it comes from 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:55.600 a Norwegian word for uneasiness following debauchery and a Greek 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.400 word for pain algaia, which is weird. I've never seen 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.560 a Norwegian and Greek put together. I haven't either, But yeah, 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:03.800 you come up with vice algia? Can I say that 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.400 the Bible verse two? Yeah? Yeah, there's a Bible verse 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.400 that talks about hangovers. It's Isaiah five eleven. Woe unto 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.760 them that rise up early in the morning, that they 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.800 may follow strong drink. In other words, I feel real 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:19.360 sorry for you that you had to get up early. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.040 If you got hammered last night, truer words have never 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.280 been written in the Bible, at least translation at least 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.440 translation there. Um. So okay, so we've got that down. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.880 We have the word origin and a Bible quote as 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:37.040 this pretty much whenever you talk about a hangover. So 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.760 what's going on there, Chuck, Well, there's a bunch of things. Um, 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:45.040 let's go ahead and start with vasopressing. Yeah, here's here is, 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:50.600 by the way, everyone, a cocktail party conversation tidbit. So 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.240 it's your next cocktail party. You might want to just 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.120 bring this up. Okay, it might be kind of depressing 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.360 to bring this up actually a cocktail party. Well, this 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.680 is the This is how you explain breaking the seal, 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.400 which I know that you have experienced. It's crazy once 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.320 you once you urinate, and we're gonna stick to the 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.680 clinical terms here, Chuck, all right, let's keep it above 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:13.520 the breaking the seal. That's clinical. Um. Once you urinate 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.719 that first time, after you've started drinking, it seems like 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.680 you just keep going and going and going and you 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:25.120 can't stop, and you actually can't, right right. So vasa pressing, 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.120 that's a pressing. Yes, when you drink booze, uh, it 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:32.200 enters your bloodstream and the pituitary gland blocks the creation 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:36.400 of vasso pressing, and without this, your kidney starts sending 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.600 water straight to your bladder, basically right to the tune 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:43.520 of four times more than you actually drink. So you 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.320 drink two fifty milli leaders of alcohol. Uh, you can 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.760 shoot out up to a thousand milli leaders or a leader? 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.840 Is that the clinical term to shoot out? Yeah, So 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.440 that's no mistake. If you've ever had a few beers 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.120 and you're thinking, Wow, that's so weird, I use the 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:03.000 bathroom and now I can't stop. That's v's depressing right there, right, Um, 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:07.400 and that's called the diuretic effect. Um. As the the 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.799 presence of alcohol increases in the bloodstream, Um, you expel 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.320 a lot more water, right, But you're not just expelling water. Also, 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:19.000 we should say this leads directly to dehydration. If you're 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:23.400 expelling four times more liquid than you're consuming, Brother, you're 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:27.320 getting dehydrated, which is one of the signature results of 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.000 the hangover. And you get the headache because of that 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:30.880 and other things too. You do and the headache. And 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.039 we've talked about this before. I don't remember where, so 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.520 we probably shouldn't, you know, try to come up with 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:39.240 a time stamp. But um, when you have a hangover, 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:43.280 your brain actually shrinks. The next day, the other organs 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.520 in your body are like you brain, you've got a 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:49.200 bunch of water exactly, So a lot of the water 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.480 um is shuffled from your brain to other organs, causing 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.599 your brain to actually shrink in size, which pulls on 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.960 the membranes that connected to the skull, the meningies. And 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.520 you know, when you have a really had hangover, you 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.360 wake up and you feel like the membranes of your 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:08.320 skull are being pulled in different So when I read this, 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.039 I was like, oh, so that's what that is. Or 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.760 like there's a four hundred pound ham fisted man with 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.680 hair and his knuckles like doing little twirls in your head. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.000 You know. Have you ever speaking of breaking the seal? 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.480 I don't think they did this in Athens at Georgia, 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.240 but I know some friends at Georgia Southern there were 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:28.320 bars there that had the drink till you pee for 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.359 free promotion? Have you ever heard of those? But it 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.840 sounds awesome. Basically, it like starting at six o'clock, they 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.120 monitor the bathrooms and everyone in the bar gets to 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.000 drink for free until the first person in the bar 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.320 goes to the bathroom. And I don't think they have 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.240 that in Athens, if they didn't when I was there. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.560 And of course because it's you know, a college, there's 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.680 like dudes peeing in beer pictures in the corner, you know, 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.400 just to keep not to not have to pay the 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.479 two others whether or not there's that you know, contest 0:06:54.600 --> 0:07:00.200 or promotion. So it's science science. Uh so, okay, that's 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:04.960 vast oppressing, right, yes, resulting in dehydration. But when you're 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.640 um urinating everywhere every which way, whether it's in a 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:13.080 beer picture or otherwise, Um, you're also expelling a lot 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:19.480 of other needed stuff like electrolytes, salt, potassium, salt, potassium, magnesium, 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.440 and these all affect how you're like cells function, how 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.880 your muscle's function, right, and you're getting rid of it 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:29.000 without putting it back in. So you're gonna feel lousy. Yes, indeed, 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.720 you are going to feel lousy. So you're dehydrated, You've 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:37.000 lost electrolytes, right, and the electrolyte and balance is really important. Um, 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.280 if you have too much salt in your electrolyte, and 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:43.800 balance is too high, Uh, you die. Um, if you 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.240 have too little, you get the shakes, the tremors, which 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.800 I understand is the most uncommon symptom of hangovers. Which 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.480 makes me nervous because I get the shakes just about 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.000 every time. The next day, I've never gotten the shakes. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.840 What I've never got in the shakes. It also points 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.040 out in this article that hangovers are subjective, so for 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.440 each person, you know, they might experience different like oh, 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.920 I've never had a hangover, or when you get the 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:12.840 shakes and you have a loss of a sense of 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.920 well being. Yeah, that's like Nick Cage and leaving Las 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.360 Vegas kind of wow. Yeah, I've always been like, wow, 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.280 that'd be great to have a grocery cart in a 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.840 liquor store. What a great scene. Should we talk about 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.480 glacogen real quick too? Yeah, that's another thing you lose. Yes, Um, 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:33.520 the glacogen is a is a key energy source and uh, 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.199 we turns it goes to the liver and turns into glucouse. 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.560 Is that correct? Right? Well, the liver turns it into 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.880 glucost and then sends it out like what the heck 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.079 is going on and just does something and all of 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.400 a sudden You've just lost all of your energies. I'll 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.400 just pee everything out just to be sure exactly. Basically, 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.080 it's what's going on, and that actually accounts for like 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:57.000 the weakness the next day fatigue um. And actually that's 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.160 not that's not the only thing that accounts for fatigue. Um. 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.120 You don't sleep very well after a night of heavy drinking. 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:07.600 Glut to mine. Yes, you have glut to mine, which 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:13.240 is a another it's actually a stimulant um, natural stimulant, yes, 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.439 which is the only good kind of stimulant um. And uh, 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:22.480 when you drink alcohol, the production of this natural stimulant 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:26.400 is actually blocked. So when you stop drinking e g. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.640 Go to sleep, your body tries to make up for 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.600 lost time and overproduces glutaman. So means you're not getting 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.160 as gonna sleep exactly. And the next day you also 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:39.320 feel restless and anxious. Um, maybe you've got the shakes. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.319 That's another cocktail party tip. If you know that if 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.559 you start saying all these things that your next cocktail party, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.600 you probably won't be invited back to the next cocktail party. Though, 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.800 you know, I think you can wow some people. It 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.600 depends on how cool your cocktail party. I guess I 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.160 could see them all saying, now, like, why are you 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.640 telling us all these awful things about drinking unless my 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.880 kind of cocktail party, it's great for me. Another one. 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:09.960 Screw glycogen, screw bass repressing. Uh so what else, Josh? Well, 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:16.960 we could talk about the impurities of liquor, the different alcohols. Yeah. 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.840 The rule of thumb is the darker the alcohol, the 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:24.400 more impure it is, and therefore the the heavier the hangover. Yes, 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.200 which is why I think everyone pretty much knows that 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.080 like your worst alcoholics, they like start drinking every morning 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:34.120 when they wake up, they're probably drinking vodka. Yes, it's 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.400 actually a good thing to drink if you are an alcoholic, 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.000 because you're going to be able to be as close 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.640 to a function alcoholic as possible. Right. How about that 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:45.120 study with the bourbon. Yeah, thirty they did study between 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.320 bourbon and vodka, and uh, of the people who drank 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.760 amount of bourbon relative to their body weight had a 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.959 severe hangover, and only three percent had a hangover when 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.480 they drank vodka. That's a big white wine, that kind 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:03.640 of thing. Um, light run yeah, Jen, Yeah, conversely, dark rum, 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:08.200 it's bad white tequila is good. Basically, if it's dark, 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.840 it's going to kill you. I'm in bad shape then, 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.160 because I'm you know, I mean, I'm a bourbon red 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:17.160 wine beer guy. That's funny. I'm like the whatever's in 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.199 the glass guy. Right, that's good. You're fun to have 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.600 the cocktail party because you're not picky. No, as long 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.040 as you don't run an ice so you know, as 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:25.920 long as there's not a cigarette but floating in it, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:30.160 I'll think it. And then sometimes even then, I don't 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.400 think that hasn't happened before, Chuck. Basically, what I took 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.040 from this article is when you drink, you are poisoning 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:40.120 your body through coningers. There's through impurities in the alcohol, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:44.360 but also through the body's natural processes of breaking down 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:48.240 out alcohol too. It Actually there's a there's a byproduct 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:55.000 produced when the liver metabolizes alcohol, um called acid aldehyde. Yeah, 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.120 take this one, because this kind of I read it 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.680 like three times and I was still a little lost. Okay, 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:04.960 allow me please. So basically, when the liver metabolizes alcohol, 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.520 it produces a byproduct that's a toxin called acid aldehyde, 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.679 and acid aldehyde is actually more toxic to the body 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.880 than alcohol. Itself, which is crazy. But we have natural 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:21.520 mechanism for neutralizing acid aldehyde called appropriate appropriately enough acid 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:25.640 aldehyde dehydrogenase appropriately so that stuff goes and attacks the 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.320 acid aldehyde. Right. Then we have this other stuff that 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.640 is called glutoth ione, right, and it contains high levels 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:38.040 of a substance called cysteine, and cysteine actually is attracted 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:42.199 to acid aldehyde. So the two things combine, acid aldehyde 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:46.360 dehydrogen ase and the cysteine in the glutoth ione uh 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.480 combined to neutralize the acid aldehyde, right, and it does 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.760 it pretty quickly. Um. You you are going to feel 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.360 some ill effects, but the less you drink, the easier 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.839 it is for these two substances to neutralize. Byproduct, is 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:05.640 the alcohol metabolized. Okay, here's the problem. You have a 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.840 limited store of glue tooth ione in your liver, so 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:10.800 you use it up pretty quick. And women have even 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.560 less than men exactly, which accounts for why women tend 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.319 to have more harsh hangovers and harsher hangovers than men, 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:21.680 not just body weight, although that does matter. Um. So 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.560 you use up your glue tooth ione stores and once 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:28.320 you do that, you're blood is just basically circulating this 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:33.000 toxic acid aldehyde, while the liver generates more glue tooth ione. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:37.240 Hence you've got this horrible hangover and why ultimately time 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.160 is the only remedy for it. Yeah, well let's get 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.079 to that in a second. Let's get to the remedies. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:46.200 Let's talk about liquor before beer, never fear or is 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.439 it the other way around here? Before liquor, never sticker 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.320 or sick. There's you're a little bit of truth to 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:56.200 that turns out because of it when folk totally um, 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.720 it turns out that the carbonation and beer speeds up 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:00.960 the absorption of alcohol. So if you start with beer, 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.440 your body's gonna have and then move on to liquor, 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.760 your body is in fact gonna have a harder time 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.800 processing those toxins. Even though there's a certain age. My 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.439 friend Justin, I you know, Justin, we were talking about 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.400 this a few years ago. Someone was remarking about we 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:17.880 had a big night out and like, what was it 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:19.960 liquor before beer? Be before liquor? I can't remember, And 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.680 I just said, you know what doesn't matter anymore, No, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.840 you're gonna be hurting. You reach a certain age and 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.760 it either doesn't affect you or it's gonna affect you 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.200 no matter what those are college rules. I've noted through 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:34.280 my own personal observations, um that at about age twenty 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:38.479 four you get as you start getting really severe hangovers. 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.520 I haven't figured out exactly why yet, but that seems 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.520 to be about the age when you switch over from 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:48.680 I can do this constantly to Oh God, why why 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:50.920 I've got the shake cause I have a loss of 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.480 sense of well being? Right? Yeah, vomiting diarrhea. I don't 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.880 know why. Maybe that's when puberty ends. There's something to 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.200 do with hormones still floating around in the body. If 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.960 you're puberty into then uh, prebody doesn't in your twenties. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:08.320 I pubody ended when I was like fourteen, but it 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:14.080 started when I was seven. So seven. Uh, where are 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.440 we now? Are we talking about vomiting? Yeah, it turns 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.640 out that that actually does help. And also, chuck, Um, 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:25.080 since we have a drinking game based on this and 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:30.080 we're talking about hangovers, allow me, okay, chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck, 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.640 chuck chuck. That should keep them for a little while. 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:38.040 Go ahead, chuck. Uh alcohol, what's going on there is 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.000 it is indeed better to vomit because when alcohol is 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.320 absorbed directly through the stomach. And when that happens, you're 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.640 the lining of your stomach is gonna become irritated and say, hey, 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:53.320 thanks for putting all this poison in me. And um, 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.600 it's gonna start secreting, secreting hydrochloric acid. Right, and the 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.800 hydrochloric acid is actually what makes you vomit. Um here 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.280 messages to the brain, says the stomach is really connected 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.160 to the brain via hormonal signals, which don't necessarily end 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:12.120 after puberty, right and um, yeah, your stomach says you've 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.120 got to get rid of this stuff. And yeah, and 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.360 it turns out that's you know, you probably shouldn't make 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.239 yourself throw up because it's dangerous. It could become a problem. 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.480 If you're drinking so much and you're making yourself throw up, 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.320 you do have a problem. You should check into a 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.880 clinic or something. Check into Promises in Malibu if you've 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.000 got the cash. But it will make you feel a 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.040 little better because obviously your body is not gonna have 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.400 to process whatever alcohol is stolen your stomach. So there 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.960 you have it. Uh, what are we on to now, buddy? 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.600 I think we're we kind of nailed what it is. 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.000 So should we talk about some of the cures that 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:49.000 people spout. Yeah, there are plenty of hangover cures. Everybody's 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.200 got one. Yeah, and actually I'm surprised to find that 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.480 some of them actually are real. Now that you understand 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.640 what causes a hangover, you can actually identify what will 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.160 help here a hangover, sure, because really what's going on 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:06.359 is you've expelled electrolytes. It's biology you've expelled exactly, You've 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:13.160 expelled your natural energy stores. Um, you are dehydrated and 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.239 your brain is strung. Yeah, so what do you do 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:20.960 to make yourself feel better? Chuck? My personal favorite's hair 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.800 of the dog. Well, that helped me or not? Uh, 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.399 it will not. You know where that comes from? Uh, 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.280 it's the Bible again, isn't it. No Nazareth medieval times though, 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.119 the hair of the dog that bit you. Supposedly, if 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.720 you got bit by a rabid dog, you would take 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:36.399 some of that dog's hair and apply it to your 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.000 wound and that will cure you. This is the same 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.320 culture that buried a cat at midnight to cure war exactly. 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.480 So just like that is false hair the dog, it's 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.480 faults as well. Having a drink the next day to 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:50.640 make yourself feel a little bit better will not work. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.760 Might make you feel a bit better in the in 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.480 the short term, but ultimately you're just adding more toxins 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:56.960 that your body is gonna have to process, and you're 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.440 kind of just staving off the inevitable hangover. Unless you 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.119 just drink all day again and then you'll have to 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:07.199 hang over the following day. Yeah, exactly. Um, unless you 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:11.600 just keep going until you die and then you won 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:15.800 the game. I was taking a walk with Emily yesterday 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.679 with the dogs the shows how twisted I am? And 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.480 I saw it was eight o'clock in the morning, seven 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.239 thirty in the morning, something like that, And there was 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.560 a guy down the street from us in the parking lot, 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.520 you know, cracking his first King Cobra. And I said, 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:31.560 you know what, am? I said? Ninety nine times out 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.000 of a hundred, I see those people, and I think, God, 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.760 how could you live your life like just getting bombed 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.120 for the moment you wake up every day? I said, 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.480 But every once in a while, I think what a 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:45.040 way to live? She said? She said, what is wrong 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:49.919 with you? Exactly? Doesn't she well, she doesn't let me 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:51.480 get up and get drunk every day. If that's what 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.680 you mean, that's keeping you in line. Okay, she does, 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.280 um chuck. One of the things that kills me is 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.119 drinking coffee. I learned a long time ago that if 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.320 I ever have a hangover, I stay away from coffee. 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.880 So I'm surprised to find in this article that actually 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:08.119 it does have some benefits agreed, which are, Uh, it 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.320 will actually um alleviate your headache a little bit because 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.960 it's caffeine and that's a vasso constrictor, so it reduces 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.480 the your blood vessels. It reduces the swelling, so that'll 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:20.359 help a little bit. It'll help cure the headache some. 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.240 But it'll dehydrate you because it's a diuretic because it's 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.040 a diarettice, which is how you really got into this 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.080 trouble in the first place. So stop being stupid. Saying 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:29.920 coffee along with a lot of water might be a 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:34.400 good idea. Possibly, it's just me, right, Okay. So what else? Uh? 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.560 Fatty fatty food, fried food the next day. Yeah, which 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.159 is odd because I know I crave fried food the 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:47.719 next day. Cheeseburger, bacon, chili, cheeseburger. It's like two hamburgers. 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.400 A year and they're on hangover days. She doesn't eat 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.159 meat beef at all, but when she wakes up with 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.680 a really bad hanger, she's like quarter pounder. It's very 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.520 It's strange because obviously she's not the only person who 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:02.399 experiences that craving. But that doesn't necessarily help and could 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.960 actually make you vomit. It could tip the scales when 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.200 you've got a bunch of hydrochloric acid in your stomach. 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.880 But it could help if you ate a bacon chili 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:15.679 cheeseburger or two bacon chili cheeseburgers before you started drinking it. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.919 Why because it contains oil and the fat and the 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:24.920 grease will line your stomach and absolutely and in fact, 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.600 in the Mediterranean they have long drank a little bit 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.760 of olive oil before imbibing. It's an old thing they do. 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.960 They're not I'm not either. I like ol of o, 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.199 but I'm not gonna drink a tablespoon of it. No 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.919 me neither. Okay, Uh, how about a banana. I'm just 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:43.679 gonna pull that one out of my head, out of 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:49.960 your banana tree um remedy, yes, okay, loaded with potassium electrolytes. 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:54.199 And because remember you lose potassium, which is an electrolyte, 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.560 so if you can remember, restore the balance. So banana 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:00.439 will help your hangover as well. Eggs, yeah, since we're 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:04.639 on breakfast, because they contain cisteine, right, which is something 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:07.679 that's attracted to acid aldehyde. Right, So eggs in a 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:10.240 banana and water would be a great way to start 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:11.880 your morning if you had to hang over, Not just water, 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:15.960 but water loaded with sugar and salt. Actually, right, because 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.199 the carbonation it would do the same thing as it 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:23.280 did with the beer before liquor. So you want uncarbonated 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:27.280 water load of a salt sugar, not a red Bull no, 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:31.720 because it has caffeine. Not an energy drink. Uncarbonated non 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:36.679 caffeine water with salt and sugar, which I think I 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:40.959 just described a supports drink, right, A banana and some 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:42.959 eggs or you know what else you can do instead 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:47.159 of water? Put some fruit juice in there. Fruit juice. 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:50.439 Fruit juice is the kind of the kind of sugar 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.760 you want fruit toase, and studies have shown that it 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:56.320 increases the rate that which your body gets rid of 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:59.280 the toxins, and uh, that's a good idea. It also 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:02.080 gives you vitamins of course, Okay, what about um say 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:07.760 etcetera seta menafin a seeda menafin is uh, well, you 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:10.640 you want to avoid etcetera because has caffeine, right, which 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:15.120 can help. But ultimately, now and a set of menafin 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:17.760 I believe you don't want to take because that can 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:20.800 mess with your liver. Ultimately, if you have alcohol in yours, 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.080 if you take a set of mena fin for a hangover, 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:27.439 you are probably going to feel a little better. 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