Your Complete Guide to the Science of Hangovers from Smithsonian.com

image from withak.files.wordpress.com1. The simplest and most familiar explanation is that drinking alcohol causes dehydration, both because it acts as a diuretic, …

2. Most scientists believe that a hangover is driven by alcohol interfering with your body’s natural balance of chemicals in a more complex way…

3. The most compelling theory, at the moment, is that hangovers result from a buildup of acetaldehyde, a toxic compound, in the body…

4. Hangovers could also be driven by the way alcohol messes with your immune system…

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2 Responses to Your Complete Guide to the Science of Hangovers from Smithsonian.com

  1. Rick Lowe's avatar Rick Lowe says:

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  2. Tradewinds's avatar Tradewinds says:

    How clever those Washington Wizards seem to be and I don’t mean the BB team.. I only wish that they could come up with a solution to the hangover I experience whenever I think about VAT that Very Awful Tax that the new Washington Consensus is forcing on our Bahamas.. VAT seems to dehydrate the logic mind, unbalances the body’s natural state and increase toxicity of the mind.. I guess VAT muddles the immune system as well..
    I think I can feel another VAT hangover coming on.. Time for the relief of a good dry martini.. Maybe S3S will buy the refreshments at Annabel’s..

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