There are a lot of holdover myth . No , they are not do by drying up , so drinking lots of H2O with your spirits wo n’t help oneself . And no , they are not do by blood pelf levels . Scientists do have one hypothesis about what make them , however — and fortuitously we have a curative for it .
Science diary keeper Adam Rogerswas just on Fresh Airdiscussing his new bookProof : The scientific discipline of Booze , and he explain :
[ Scientists ] finally have a view instrument that they can give somebody and assess , “ You have a Level 9 hangover , and you have a Level 7 hangover , ” and they finally jump to see that overlap with both sick headache and also an seditious response , so the kind of thing you would have if you had the flu — where you feel aching and you feel tiresome and your brain does n’t work as fast and [ you have ] general malaise . Looking at that , they can go , “ K , let ’s see if in fact this is an inflammation . ”
If you look at citizenry with hangovers , the same markers in the blood that you would see with an inflammatory response , affair like cytokines , for object lesson — which are molecule[s ] that the immune [ system ] uses to talk to itself — actually do seem elevated , and even better , you could induce what look like a hangover by giving somebody those same molecules . … That ’s good news show because if you say , “ Well , it ’s an inflammatory reaction , ” then mayhap I can go with anti - inflammatory drugs , and we have those .
That ’s right . It ’s potential that the curative for a hangover may just be non - steroidalanti - inflammatory drugslike ibuprofin and asprin . So you ’ve plausibly been doing it right all along .
take heed to the whole interviewon NPR
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