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"  You already know the drill on some basic rules for warding off and healing a hangover\u2014i.e. drinking a ton of water and eating the night of as well as the next a.m. (and yes, some greasiness is good, but protein over carbs are even better). However, there are other not-so-obvious tricks that could totally transform how you feel the next day. Jeffrey Morrison, MD, founder of The Morrison Center in NYC, shares these proven cures. &amp;quot;Alcohol is a poison, and the more you drink, your body can&amp;#039;t break it down and your digestive tract can&amp;#039;t dispel it\u2014so it&amp;#039;s all about enhancing your body&amp;#039;s ability to detoxify,&amp;quot; he says. The saying is true: &amp;#039;Beer before liquor never sicker, liquor before beer, never fear.&amp;#039; &amp;quot;What is going on is this: with liquor, people get drunk faster so typically they don&amp;#039;t drink as many cocktails as, say, beer,&amp;quot; says Morrison. &amp;quot;However, with beer, people tend to drink it for a longer duration, so the alcohol builds up and then all of a sudden it hits you.&amp;quot; So, essentially when you&amp;#039;re downing a vodka-infused summer-worthy cocktail, you&amp;#039;re more likely to drink it quickly and not be cognizant of the amount of alcohol you&amp;#039;re consuming, yet it&amp;#039;s so concentrated; but if you then move on to beer, you start to slow down your drinking and so you don&amp;#039;t get as sick. Verses if you drink the two in the opposite order, you&amp;#039;re speeding up (aka hard alcohol) consumption all night long. Having good taste in the good stuff\u2014whatever the alcohol\u2014has perks. &amp;quot;There are what are called congeners in alcohol that are a byproduct of the fermentation process of wine, beer and alcohol,&amp;quot; says Morrison. And the more times alcohol is distilled (which typically makes it also more expensive), the more are removed and the less hungover you&amp;#039;ll be. &amp;quot;Congeners act as toxins for the brain and the body wants to get rid of them,&amp;quot; he says. The other issue with wine? Sulphites. &amp;quot;In order for cheaply made wine to get the level of alcohol it needs, sulphites are added to speed up fermentation, and it&amp;#039;s harder for the body to get rid of them,&amp;quot; explains Morrison. Translation: a far worse hangover than wine with less sulphites. Emergin C is legit. But so is eating an orange and popping a B vitamin. &amp;quot;Taking a vitamin C and a B complex supplment about an hour before you start drinking can help improve your tolerance to alcohol for the rest of the night and the next day,&amp;quot; says Morrison. Here&amp;#039;s why: you want to improve your body&amp;#039;s ability to detoxify itself before the mayhem happens\u2014as in the a.m. is too late. Dr. Morrison recommends taking about 1000 mg of vitamin C and 50 mg of a B complex to get the max hangover fighting power of the duo. While your head may be throbbing, it&amp;#039;s really all about calming your stomach. &amp;quot;After a night of drinking, you often feel nauseous and sick because your stomach is moving in the wrong direction,&amp;quot; says Morrison, who suggests taking Boiron Nux Vomica, a homeopathic remedy that&amp;#039;s meant for those with an upset stomach but can greatly help with hangover symptoms. &amp;quot;It helps to re-establish normal digestion function, and there are no side effects and it&amp;#039;s totally safe\u2014just take three tablets every hour until you feel better.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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