Mindful drinking, eating can prevent hangover

You're enjoying beer, cocktails with friends, and before you know it, night turns into day, and you wake up with a massive hangover

You're not alone. According to a study conducted at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, about 76 per cent of adults experience some type of hangover after a drinking session. The findings are published in the journal Addiction.

Hangover symptoms include fatigue, dehydration, a headache or muscle aches, dizziness, shakiness, rapid heartbeat.

"Just in the previous decade, we are seeing more sophisticated clinical and preclinical research advance our understanding of all that is involved in a hangover," said Laura Veach, a researcher. "Briefly, we have indications that the immune system and an inflammation response are involved when that hangover alarm goes out, from the central nervous system, when the blood alcohol concentration finally gets to zero. The absence of alcohol in the body at that point is often where the hangover symptoms are at their worst."

So what can be done to both prevent and treat hangovers? It starts with being mindful of what you're drinking and eating. Read Complete Article

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