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Not necessarily an answer to your question, but taking some vitamin B (1 or 2 tablets) before you sleep after a night drinking can help deal with the hangover symptoms the following morning.
I’ve found it helps in not getting any headache at all. Why it may work is that some of the vitamin B subtypes act like little cogs in a bigger metabolic enzyme machine that deal with breaking down alcohol and especially it’s byproduct acetaldehyde. The latter is thought to give you the classic headache symptoms. However, alcohol depletes some of the vitamin B subtypes as it makes you pee them out so getting them back in before you sleep can give your body some of the tools needed to break it down. It also helps you usually drink vitamins with water.
If you’re wondering if you can still sleep as vitamin B can also give you energy as a metabolic aid, I’ve personally not had any issues, but I’m a heavy sleeper usually.
Your body’s ability to produce an antioxidant called glutathione drops as you age. Glutathione is responsible for breaking down the main toxic metabolite of alcohol- acetaldehyde, which is partially responsible for the psychological and physiological effects of a hangover.
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