Responsible drinking: controlling your alcohol

if the doctor tells you that if you carry on like this it will kill you helps to focus the mind...

same q to shergar

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It does get harder to get over with age I dunno why. In the end drinking less and less often is the answer.

Some other tips are:

Eat well before drinking, preferably protien and carbs, avoid fats and sugars.
Avoid mixing drinks, especially grape and grain.
Drinking way past your normal bedtime is also a pitfall
Avoid drinking on consecutive days, and definately have 3 consecutive clear days per week for your liver to rejuvinate.
Asprin works better than other tablets for hangover as it reduces blood pressure, which is what the pounding head is.
Eat well the following day and excersise in the fresh air.

cheers TJM, keeping control is the way ahead

I'm packing in totally. I gave it up for 3 weeks in October and regret starting again. It's half a bottle of brandy a day, but it's every day, and I can feel the inflammation in my liver.

I have to taper off, otherwise I get very unpleasant 'jerks' as I'm dropping off to sleep, if I stop suddenly. I bought a bottle of brandy today and there's a quarter bottle left in the last one. Once that's done, I'm finished with it (hopefully).

If you want to stop, you will.

and as for this congener speculation, the primary effectts of a hangover are due to dehydration and ethanal poisoning, both of which are directly contributable to alcohol and nothing else.

wur, that is a bit much mate. If your ready to jack it in then the very best of luck to you, and in whatever shape or form you think best get yourself a support network to get through it. good luck.

it's absolutely correct 8sid. iirc chronic exposure to alcohol causes a change in the rate of production of certain liver enzymes which break it down. so yes, if the booze is processed more quickly there's less dehydration effect and less ethanal production - it's fecking terrible for your liver though.

sorry - just as much ethanal is produced but it's converted into acetate more quickly

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ANSWER THE QUESTION HATE SID

DRINK MORE WOT A LOAD OF COBBLERS

abit of advice is to have a non alcoholic drink inbetween beers, for example 2 bottles of beer then an orange juice/glass of water thena beer then another orange juice and so on

this is all good in theory actually sticking to this after a few beers is the problem

I am going off what a professor told me, specific to me. when I say specific, I hounded him with all kinds of questions and he related my condition to being worsened by chemical beers, both for processing and intestinal permeability issues, and that nurofen would be worse than brufen for the interrelated effects. asprin was the lesser of the two evils, and had some other benefit related to hangover of which I forget. I now take paracetamol anyway and drink less lol. I rarely get proper hangover and if I do it is due to drinking chemical beers or mixing lots of drinks.

Curious about the effects of processing more alcohol quicker. I found this until 30's and then declined and took it much harder. Most of my mates the same. Any idea why this is? Does the liver itself decline after a while of processing at a faster rate?

in general bavarian beers, and most belgian beers. Budvar, tuborg, duval etc, but not the British brewed versions of the same thing. I'm not sure what this new draft becks veir is, I suspect it may be british brewed and not bremen but could be wrong. Grolschcan be ok if it is the dutch version, but the UK version is often cack. it is much easier to get bottled beers as they often have the ingredients on, or a claim of purity either bremen or bavairan etc, whereas draft it is harder to know, and you wont get them much from your local unless your drinking camra bitters in which case I am not he person to ask but I guess the same principle applies.

Similarly if drinking sprits, as a rle of thumb the branded ones are made from purer recipes, and the cheaper "house" spirits are often made using ingredients that dont need to be in there but speed up the brewing process. for example, brandy and gin is often made with wheat or corn grains and colourings to disguise the discolouration.

Another point to note is that drinking spirits with a mixer will get the alcohol through your system much quicker. In that it means that the gas in the mixer will prevent as much alcohol from entering the bloodstream, the liver however still has to absorb it. So if your on a long day/night out then drinking spirit mixers will prolong your sobriety over the course of session, liver the effect on the liver is much the same. Studies shown that this affects most people though some were unaffected by the mixer. In hangover terms I guess this works in two ways. The stomach has to deal with the problem much the same, and the overall cumulative effect on the liver is much the same, though headache/alcohol poisening would be less if it has bypassed the bloodbrain barrier. Perhaps DStyle would know more on the likely after effect is.

Hangovers are for kids, nobody with any sense would get themselves into that state.