Amazing Hangover Prevention with pre-hydration

Amazing Hangover Prevention with pre-hydration

In today’s NJroute22.com VLOG – we will share our thoughts about the effects of pre-hydration when it comes to hangover remedies (or prevention!)

You like to drink – but hate hangovers

Before we get started – let’s state the obvious.

To absolutely prevent hangovers – just don’t drink at all. Or at the very least just have one or two drinks.

But who just has a “few” drinks? Why bother?

If you’re like us – you like, want, and enjoy your adult beverages.

However, the consequences are both short and long-term.

Long-term consequences are accumulative. And are hard to remedy. Organ damage being the most obvious. And of course early death.

The same can happen in the short-term as well – but usually ONLY when mass consumption is involved.

Hydration is always mentioned with hangover prevention

Two “tips” to prevent hangovers we’ve always tried in years past were:

1. “Hydrate” – Drink a glass of water between drinks. (Not always possible – hard to sustain.)
2. Drink lots of water before bed!

Frankly – we cannot manage the first option very well – as we said, it’s unsustainable for us.

And we do drink plenty of water before bed. But it either doesn’t work well or perhaps we’re not drinking enough.

As a result – we get hangovers more often than we like.

New discovery! Pre-hydration!

The other day – we decided to try an idea I came up with (don’t hate if this is out there in the wild – we have no idea if this concept has been talked about already).

To drink TONS of water before our drinking session of the night.

In our case – it was half a gallon of water. 64 ounces. Super-cold water, too.

I decided to experiment – and gave myself 2-3 hours to consume that water before drinking.

The result?

Well, let me say we drank a LOT of spiked seltzer that night, it should have made us feel like shit the next day.

But lo behold – we felt FANTASTIC the next day. Astounded, we were – a hangover prevention cure that works?

So we tried it again the next day. Heavy hydration before drinking. And guess what?

IT WORKED AGAIN!

I think we’re on to something.

We really don’t care about the biological mechanisms behind it – but my theory is that if you “prep” your liver and urinary system with lots of “lubrication” – then it perhaps ramps up the “RPMS” of your bodies ability to expel alcohol and other toxins?

I don’t know.

But it works.

Your mileage and “ounces” of water may vary – but this is something astounding for us.

To prevent that shoddy feeling most people get the next day is a true achievement.

Maybe all the golden rules we were told in the past are just a waste of time.

We’ll keep trying this new way of preventing hangovers.

Perhaps our bodies will adjust in some way – in order to remind us that we should NOT be drinking at all.

But for now – we’re thrilled with not feeling like garbage the next day!

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NJroute22 (site admin) is an avid traveler along NJ Route 22 (and almost all of central New Jersey!) Family man, pet lover, and property owner who has a natural curiosity for everything around.

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