Practical info for the smarter drinker
You hear about it every once in a while — a college kid partied too hard during rush week or a holiday office party got out of hand — but alcohol poisoning is no laughing matter. A consequence of drinking large amounts of alcohol in a short period of time, alcohol poisoning affects your breathing, …
There are so many ways to offset the effects of alcohol and avoid a hangover, including having a big dinner before drinking, eating in between drinks, sticking to one type of alcohol and choosing light alcohol over dark. However, the best thing to do before, during and after drinking is to stay hydrated. Drinking water …
This is a repost from LyteShow, used here with their permission. By Mike McAdams It’s late afternoon and you can’t drag yourself out of your sleeping bag. Your favorite band has come and gone. Your friend tells you it was the best performance in the history of the band. But you’re not listening because …
Electrolytes! Everybody wants more electrolytes, even though we don’t know what they do or where to find them. The good news is that electrolytes can help with a hangover (among other things) and are really easy to find, because they’re everywhere. Specifically, it’s the primary ions of electrolytes that are what’s important, and they include: …
After-Party Electrolyte Slide When it comes to fixing hangovers we are often bombarded with fancy names for chemical cure-alls and countermeasures, and “electrolytes” are always among the honorable mentions. It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot by energy drink marketing execs and athletes in Gatorade commercials, but no one ever talks about what …