We’ve all been there—the mornings where you swear “I’m never, EVER drinking again.”
Well, you swore that last week. But now you’re back in bed wondering why you just had to have that one last drink, feeling like there are construction workers jackhammering away in your head, and struggling with a stomach ache that you hope will just get better once the room stops spinning.
So you chase a few aspirin witha glass of water, force down a little bit of food, and pray to the hangover gods for mercy. Sometimes, though, that’s just not enough.
Scientists have proposed a new hangover cure that has been shown to work in as little as a half hour. N-acetyleysteine, or NAC, is an amino acid that expels the toxins that result from a night when you’ve had a bit too much—without a prescription. It can be used to prevent hangover symptoms or relieve them (if you just couldn’t make it to the medicine cabinet the night before).
It has also been found that NAC can do more than help your hangover symptoms; it can actually reverse some of the damage you’ve done to your liver from over-consuming alcohol.1 It helps the body to remove the damaging free radicals that result from the liver working overtime to break down the toxins introduced into your system by alcohol.
You can get NAC naturally from eggs, but for quick, effective relief there are several NAC supplements that you can find at the drugstore. You’ll be feeling better in no time and ready to hit the town again tonight.
Well, maybe not just yet.
1 The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/a-drinkers-guide-to-hangover-cures-445085.html
