Any tips on recovering from a hangover?
Lots of beer and not enough sleep, what shoul I do to recover?
when you have a hang over you are experiencing the effects of alcohol on your system.
If I try to explain what alcohol does when its in your system, it'll make finding a hangover "cure" a whole lot easier.
Alcohol is in terms on nutrients, a carbohydrate. It is a simple carb in the way white sugar is a simple carb (its made from fruit sugars and this is why its a simple carb.) It does what all simple sugars do (ever heard of the g.i diet?) it raises your blood sugar to very high, thn when its left your system, it plunges to very low and in response your body becomes weak and tierd and you feel nausious.
Simple cure? something which has both simple and complex carbs in it- such as mulitgrain bread (n.b not brown bread which is just a simple carb) and maybe a glass of orange juice.
Second, when drinking alcohol your body looses fluid andyou become dehydrated- simple cure? dinkk some water.
Third, your body sweats more than usual when drunk as your metabolism rises with all the alcohol sugars you take in. when you sweat, you not only loose water, you also loose blood salts, so a small amount of slat is what your body needs- you can get this through drinking an icotonic drink like lukosade original or a rehydration packet which are from boots.
Fourth, you need- when having ingested all of the above, so sustain the blood sugar and metabolism which can only be done by eating something with fat in it.
So in summary you need to eat something with both simple and complex carbohydrates in, something with a small amount of salt in, drink some water and rest.
BLT on multigrain bread with orange juice and tea it is then!
or last nights chinese take out with brown rice