8 Foods and Drinks To Help Speed Up Hangover Recovery

How To Speed Up Hangover Recovery

Hangovers are no fun. Fortunately, because of the way your body processes alcohol, there are plenty of tasty food and drink options which can help speed up hangover recovery.

Remember to drink sensibly. It’s full of empty calories and drinking too much alcohol can have a negative impact on your health in general. Have a glass of water between each alcoholic drink. This will slow down your alcohol consumption and help you to feel full.

If you do overindulge, stock up on the following solids and liquids for some quick morning after head and stomach ache relief to help your hangover recovery.

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8 Foods and Drinks To Help Speed Up Hangover Recovery

Water, Water and More Water

Alcohol molecules are absolutely head over heels in love with H2O. That interesting fact comes from James M. Schaefer, a research professor and alcohol metabolism expert. So the more alcohol, wine or beer you drank last night, the drier your entire body, including your brain. Drink lots of water, then drink some more.

Orange Juice

Fructose is one of the components of orange juice. This sugar fires up your metabolism of alcohol, and can help speed up your hangover recovery. This is because fructose can increase your natural metabolism of alcohol by up to 25%. And the vitamin C in citrus juices and help repair cell damage related to binge drinking.

Jam and Jelly

The key component here once again is fructose. And when you spread jam or jelly on toast, you help build much-needed energy stores that could use a boost while you are recovering.

Fruit juice

In case you don’t want to think about eating anything at all when you are hung over, drink some fruit juice to help speed up your recovery. Stick with natural juices because of the fructose and other healthy sugars they contain.

Eggs

Repeat after me … “Protein and Cysteine.” Protein is great for energy, and the high quantities of cysteine in eggs go to work on any toxins left over from the alcohol you drank the night before. Stick to mostly egg whites and you keep your cholesterol level manageable.

Cactus Extract

Recent research (which is still being conducted) seems to show that the skin of the prickly pear cactus is great as a hangover helper. You can purchase cactus extract online or at your nearest health food store. It helps to relieve appetite loss, the dry mouth and nausea that last night’s drinking has left you with today.

Ginger

We are not talking about the stranded redhead from Gilligan’s Island here. Just take 2 ginger capsules or pills every hour with water when you are recovering from a hangover. Nutritionist Monica Reinagel agrees with research that shows a small dose of ginger can ease the vomiting, bloating, gas, constipation and indigestion caused by over-drinking.

Gatorade

This sports drink and others are excellent for speeding up your recovery when you are hung over. Many sports beverages are high in electrolytes that hangover sufferers need to replenish, and you need to hydrate yourself as well.

Always Drink Alcohol Sensibly

Alcohol contains many empty calories and a single night of drinking can translate into taking in thousands of liquid calories. A glass of wine can have the same calories as 4 cookies and a pint of lager can have the calorific equivalent of a slice of pizza. Instead of being burnt by your body, calories from alcohol are stored as fat and accumulate on your stomach. Alcohol also increases your appetite. It causes you to crave junk food which will often result in you consuming even more calories and sabotaging your weight loss goals.  If you do eat and drink a little too much one day, don’t beat yourself up. Accept the set back, remain positive and return back to a healthy lifestyle.

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