Seeing as how I’ve spent the last few blog posts telling you what’s going to make you feel worse I felt I should at least give you insight on something that is guaranteed to make you feel better.. After all, the blog is called “how to avoid a hangover” not how to make one worse. Even if you’ve heard it a thousand times before I’m here to tell you again to convince you to try it if you haven’t already – Fruit Smoothies. Of course it’s common knowledge that alcohol will drain you of lots of your vitamins, hell, it seems lots of your life for the next day but one thing that got me through my, what seemed like a never ending binge last year was frozen fruit smoothies. It was a morning ritual when I woke up at 9am feeling like crap the next day on no sleep to throw myself out of bed and in a drunken haze make a fruit smoothie; usually consisted of banana, strawberry, mixed berries, and an orange. After chugging it down I’d go back to sleep but when I woke up the second time at around noon, life would feel a little bit better.
Not only did the fruits replenish lots of the vitamins I had lost there’s also lots of antioxidants in all the fruits to break down the left over alcohol in the pit of death that is your body. Having this right in the morning also put something (that wasn’t crap) into my stomach and helped to dilute the pool of vodka that had been left behind. Now I’m sure it’s pretty obvious that fruit is going to make a difference but you’d be surprised at how much of a difference it can actually make, it was honestly one of the factors that allowed me to drink on 10 day binges last summer… and last summer is when I probably needed the info on how to avoid a hangover most.
If you want to make the ultimate breakfast a long with the fruit smoothie a few eggs and some toast work pretty well. Eggs contain something in it called “cysteine” which actually helps break down the acetaldehyde (toxins from alcohol) in the liver which can help extremely in the how to avoid a hangover game. It’s essentially a back up force to help rid of all the leftover toxins that your body hasn’t broken down which is one of the main causes of a hangover.
You may have heard it plenty of times before but by pulling off this ultimate breakfast you’re definitely going to feel like less of a dead body the next day. In this case study on how to avoid a hangover we reviewed something that will actually have major effects on replenishing the nutrients and taking out the toxins. Throw in some water in combination and you have yourself a recovery just in time to hit the liquor store and start drinking before lunch.
Don’t do it. I could honestly stop the whole blog with that one statement I don’t even know where this came from even a little bit but I swear I saw it around one time so I figured I’d share my knowledge with everyone. It was a Saturday morning, hungover as per usual and thinking about an easy accessible “hangover cure” that I could get my hands on. As I’m thinking of what crazy thing I could try this time I realized I was hungry.. I swear somewhere I had read that a good greasy fast food meal would just absorb all the alcohol up in the stomach and the two bad’s would cancel each other out. I can assure you, this wasn’t the case.
I don’t know about you but even earlier today (this hangover adventure was a few days ago) I had a big mac and I swear to god I experienced a hangover just from the fast food.. Now, eating fast food definitely didn’t rid me of my hangover, in fact it gave me two. Have you ever experienced two hangovers at once? I didn’t think it was possible either but the immense pain I felt was pretty extreme. All I could picture in my mind on the way home was to get the hell in my bed and lay and focus on staying alive and breathing. Thank god it only lasted an hour or two and I distracted myself with some good old fashion two and a half men but it was not pleasant to say the least.
Little side story here, it may have been one of the worst hangovers of my life after eating it and feeling like my body was shutting down but there was one worse time. A few years ago hungover I felt like I was in a desert I was so dehydrated, it was a super hot day and I had a fantastic idea, let’s go get a Slurpee. Me and a few friends figured this was the greatest idea ever thought of by another human being and we went on our journey. Filling up those clear cups with delicious icy goodness, this was going to be amazing. It was the greatest tasting thing ever and we all finished in about 10 minutes, we didn’t know what we were getting ourselves in to. 20 minutes after this Slurpee I literally had a feeling of pretty much how a fever works, instant to your body you just feel super sick. I shook in my bed for a good 3 hours just trying to get through (this is now I know due to the fact alcohol already completely screws with your blood sugar and when you put in a full Slurpee full of sugar all at once it’s quite the sugar shock and it completely dominates your boday). I can’t even explain the feeling, I literally tried to tell everyone I knew about the story just so they didn’t go through what I did.
Moral of the post, fast food does not work during a hangover.. Though I will mention that during drinking it will give something to soak up and absorb some of the alcohol in your stomach for more of a balance in the morning, but after don’t do it. Stick to nutritious foods. Even more so than not eat fast food… Don’t drink a Slurpee, if you take one thing from this entire blog it’s that.. Just don’t do it, hurts so bad… Run.
If you want to make the ultimate breakfast a long with the fruit smoothie a few eggs and some toast work pretty well. Eggs contain something in it called “cysteine” which actually helps break down the acetaldehyde (toxins from alcohol) in the liver which can help extremely in the how to avoid a hangover game. It’s essentially a back up force to help rid of all the leftover toxins that your body hasn’t broken down which is one of the main causes of a hangover.