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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