How to cure a hangover

Ironically as I write this I am suffering from a horrific hangover. I have slept all morning and due to lack of energy am creating all manner of methods to procrastinate from my work. Today is a right-off. We get hangovers for multiple reasons. Alcohol breaks glycogen stores into glucose which is peed out. This causes mild hypoglycaemia which is why we feel wobbly and weak. Also the excess methanol in our gut takes along time to break down into a substance called formic acid, which is extremely poisonous and can cause typical symptoms of hangovers. Most damming though is the fact that alcohol is diuretic. When alcohol arrives at the pituitary gland at the base of the brain it suppresses the production of vasopressin, which is a substance that keeps the body fluid balance. Resulting in the kidneys not being able to reabsorb water, therefore we pee more. The brain shrinks because water is taken from it to combat fluid shortage, this pulls on the tendons that gives you that thumping headache. None of this information helps us lose a hangover though but it does show us potentially how to. The tendon pulling can be eradicated easily by purely drinking more water, make it juice and you solve the hypoglycaemia. The poisonous formic acid has a more bizarre and, right now for me, less appealing remedy, to drink more! The logic being that the enzymes will break down ethanol first and therefore the dissimulating of methanol will be a more gradual process easing the affect of the formic acid. There is a supplement in health food shops that aids the breaking down of ethanol and methanol called: N-acetyh-cysteine. But I doubt anyone will go to that length just to enable a more productive day … There has never been a funded scientific experiment into finding a perfect hangover cure. There is a conspiracy that the government hinder this type of research for fear of the repercussions of a hangover cure pill. It would conceivably result in absolute drunken tyranny, especially in a nation labelled ‘Booze Britannia’, but right now I need it.