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What is the relationship between
drinking alcohol + water?
drinking alcohol + water with minerals vs water without minerals?
Do minerals/electrolytes have a relationship with hangover or how you feel after drinking to varying degrees?
My bro science...
Not really by much. The only way to avoid a hangover would be to not drink alcohol. Minerals might help a little but they are probably the smallest factor. The easiest way to reduce its impact is with sugar since alcohol impacts your glucose levels. Acetaldehyde builds up in your system without any remedy and that's a big part of the hangover feeling. Minerals won't help.
Water, sleep, and fruit are probably your best bet. I usually take water, fruit juice, and an aspirin if I'm expecting a hangover. In the morning, more water, fruit juice, and bread are probably decent hangover remedies.
I don't think minerals help much. When I was younger, I used to go for a run. Even if I felt terrible, I'd start to feel better after 5-10min of running. But I was younger then. These days, hangovers are rare but brutal.
Yeah everything I can find on the subject shows that dehydration is just one of the many factors in a hangover, and isn't the main one. The primary cause seems to be an immune system response that we do not understand, caused by factors, other than you drank alcohol, we do not know.
If the alcohol you are drinking was produced in wood barrels, the tradicional and more expensive way, is less prone to give you hangover.
In the other hand the distilled alcohol, cheaper, contains a higher amount of acetaldehyde, so it is more prone to give you a hangover.
So Re:bro-science/sugar, is it worse with dryer alcohol, and is it helpful to selectively sip my lower-but-still-sugar-contianing kombucha as a preferable thing to water?
Edit: bro science is still "science" aha. I love it all