Few goals excite the amateur scientist as much as the hunt for a hangover cure. Let’s face it not everyone can drink like André the Giant and most of us are all too familiar with the lingering spirit of a night out. It’s no wonder so many people have tried their hand at finding a hangover cure from greasy food to the old “hair of the dog.” The problem is none of these suggestions will actually “cure” your hangover.
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The 4 Steps to a Hangover Cure
The truth is researchers aren’t entirely sure what causes a hangover and it seems like there are multiple factors. Alcohol can cause dehydration and insomnia. It also releases toxins into your body that can damage cells and cause headaches and gastrointestinal upset. All of these factors combine to create the symptoms we know as a hangover. There’s no known “cure” that can cure all of these symptoms at once. However you can treat a few common hangover symptoms with a morning cup of coffee.
Coffee can help you break the grogginess that often accompanies a hangover and there’s even research to suggest that caffeine can help relieve hangover headaches. Treating a hangover with coffee is a delicate matter however as too much coffee can actually make your symptoms worse. Here’s why coffee does and doesn’t work for your hangover.
Coffee has long been touted as a hangover cure which is understandable since the stimulating effects of caffeine make you more alert and better able to process information. It’s only in the past decade however that research has begun to explore a deeper connection between caffeine and hangovers. A 2010 study conducted by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia revealed the root cause of hangover headaches. Our bodies break down alcohol into several byproducts including acetate which researchers identified as the cause of headaches.
