How to Avoid a Hangover
November 21st, 2007It is much more important to understand how to avoid a hangover than it is to deal with a hangover once have one. Of course the easiest and most effective way to avoid a hangover is to not drink any alcohol at all but for those who like a drink, in this article I will explain just how easy it is to lessen the impact on your weary brain after a moderate to heavy drinking session.
The best approach in regards how to avoid a hangover is to first get an understanding of what causes a hangover. The reason your head hurts the day after a big drinking session is basically because your brain is dehydrated. Your brain is made up of approximately 90% water and when you drink alcohol your body and your brain can become severely dehydrated. So your brain is in a shrunken state inside your skull.
When you feel pain throughout other parts of your body that is related to your hangover it is often for the same reasons, your body is severely dehydrated. Although different organs within your body are made up of differing percentages of water, the human body in general is made up of about 70% water overall.
How to avoid a hangover in the simplest of ways requires just a little bit of common sense. While you are drinking, try drinking a glass of water in between each alcoholic drink during the course of your drinking session. Before you begin drinking, take some vitamin B and vitamin C supplements or you could even mix your drinks with fruit juices that contain those vitamins.
Vitamin B and vitamin C are the number one vitamins that fight to repair the body from the inside out. Vitamin B is commonly associated with helping the body to recover from physical and mental stress. Vitamin C is probably the most important vitamin you could ever take since it aids in the recovery and repair process of cells within the body. It would be wise to take a potent B Complex supplement before and after your drinking session and you could take as much as 5,000mg or more of vitamin C before and after you drink heavily.
Probably the most important thing to do in regards how to avoid a hangover is to drink copious amounts of water after your drinking session right up until you go to bed. There is no set amount of water you should consume after drinking and before bed but I would suggest drinking one to two liters before you retire for the night. In most cases, the more water you drink before you go to bed, the better you will feel the next day. If you eat some foods containing complex carbohydrates like bread, potatoes, rice or cereals with your water intake, the carbohydrates will help to store the water in your body and help fight against the effects of dehydration.
Take a bottle of water and sit it by your bed while you are sleeping. If you wake up in the night, guzzle as much water as you can. If your mouth is dry that is an indication you should really drink up since your body and brain is severely dehydrated. Depending on how much alcohol you drink, you may not be able to avoid a hangover entirely but the water and the B and C vitamins will help ease the intensity of your hangover the next day.
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