It named the best cure for a hangover

The best cure for a hangover can be soda Sprite, as scientists have found. It turns out that drinks with lemon and lime better than all the other helps the body to process alcohol.

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Chinese scientists at the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong Province decided to test 57 drinks - from tea from different herbs to soda - for their ability to save people from the state of hangover. It turned out that some of them really helped in this case, speeding up the elimination of alcohol from the body, and some, on the contrary, slowed hangover.

The most effective means of hangover cure   Steel-based drinks of lemon and lime, but herbal teas, on the contrary, increased the duration of ill health after the adoption of alcoholic beverages. This conclusion followed after scientists have identified what it is that creates hangover.

It turned out that the cause of a hangover is not the alcohol, and the process of splitting the body. It was at the time of processing alcohol we feel nausea and headaches. When a person consumes alcohol, his liver produces an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase under (ADH), splitting ethanol alcohol and turns it into acetaldehyde (thus, the blood gets less alcohol).

Then, this element is also split and converted into the acetate under the influence of the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH). Although acetate considered harmless or even useful in some cases, the health, the more powerful and acetaldehyde cause hangover symptoms. Drink with lime and lemon as the researchers found that best worked on ADH and ALDH, reducing the duration of the process of splitting of alcohol. (READ MORE)

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