A late night of merriment and champagne can upset an earnest New Year's resolution before it even has a chance. While the traditions of boozing on New Year's Eve and turning a new leaf on New Year's Day may contradict each other, your resolutions can be easier to face with the help of vitamin B complex.While there's not much evidence to support the theory that vitamin B deficiency contributes to hangovers, numerous anecdotal reports of b-complex easing the consequences of partying inspired me to try it out. The results proved so effective that I now keep a bottle of sublingual b complex in my purse when I go to parties to share with friends. Unless you're wearing a lampshade on your head at the night's end (in which case you'll have to just dump all resolutions and sleep it off), vitamin B complex can save the day.
3 comments:
what about milk thistle? is that just a source of b? someone told me that was a good idea once.
Milk thistle is thought to support liver functing, so its a good idea to take a milk thistle supplement if you drink regularly. However, I don't think it has any effect during individual drinking episodes or hangovers. Without doing any research, I would argue that improved liver functioning would allow one to process alcohol easier, therefore reducing alcohol toxicity and decreasing the probability of a hangover.
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/milkthistle/
Unfortunetly there's not a ton of data on hangovers, and most is limited to its effects on society (i.e. missing work, neglecting social obligations, etc) rather than helping 20somethings who love to booze face their saturdays, but I did find one article that focuses on hangover treatment. http://annals.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/132/11/897
if only i were a scientist like you i could read the full text.
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