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SYSK Selects: What is a hangover, really? · Stuff You Should Know

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  Speaker 1: M Hey, everybody, Chuck here on a Saturday morning. Last
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  Speaker 1: night was a long one, That's all I'm gonna say.
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  Speaker 1: So my pick for today from October two nine, What
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  Speaker 1: is a hangover? Really? We talked about hangovers signs behind him,
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  Speaker 1: how to fix them? I'll give you a hit bananas.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of My
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  Speaker 1: Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, and welcome to the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark. With me is Charles Chuckers Bryant and
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  Speaker 1: that means it's the Stuff you should know? Right, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the over twenty one years old and Chuck Bryant. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a that's a big deal for this one. Chuck,
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  Speaker 1: you're just gonna go ahead and see o A right now,
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  Speaker 1: say that this is about drinking and if you're under
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  Speaker 1: twenty one you should not drink, Chuck, have you ever
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  Speaker 1: consumed an alcoholic beverage? I have over still c o A.
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  Speaker 1: If you're over twenty one you should drink responsibly. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: don't drink and drive. Um. If you have a uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: heavy machineries a big one. If you have a problem,
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  Speaker 1: you can contact alcoholics anonymous. Right. I've always wanted to
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  Speaker 1: test that one. Get really plowed and just sit down
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  Speaker 1: behind a bulldozer. For I always imagined forkliffs with heavy machinery.
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  Speaker 1: I go straight to the dozer. So, yes, I have
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  Speaker 1: had an alcoholic beverage before. What was your experience with it? Like?
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  Speaker 1: Did you feel a little light headed, a little crazy,
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  Speaker 1: a little inhibited? I wanted to kiss somebody? Did you
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  Speaker 1: end up kissing anybody? I did? I kissed my dog.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't you make out with a friend's sister at a
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  Speaker 1: YouTube concert once? I did? Were you under the effects
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  Speaker 1: of alcohol during that time? I was, okay, this was
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  Speaker 1: give me a break, Chuck. Did you end up with
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  Speaker 1: a hangover that day? Yes? I did the same day
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  Speaker 1: the next day? Yeah? Sure. So how did you feel?
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  Speaker 1: I felt I had a headache, I had a poor
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  Speaker 1: sense of well being. Uh i's had sensitivity to light
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  Speaker 1: and sound, diarrhea, loss of appetite, trembling, nausea, fatigue, you
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  Speaker 1: have the whole list, hydration, anxiety, trouble sleeping, weakness. Wow. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a bad hangover right there. That's all the symptoms,
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  Speaker 1: you know. The one that always gets me the worst
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  Speaker 1: whenever I have a hangover is the loss of the
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  Speaker 1: sense of well being. I feel like I am right
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  Speaker 1: there on the edge of danger. Everybody's gunning for me.
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  Speaker 1: I feel horrible. Then, really, yeah, it's really bad, it
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  Speaker 1: really I've always assumed it affects my serotonin level. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't see anything in this article about that, right.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna have to get taken to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital in Portland, Oregon one time, did you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: The next day Emily asked me as her friend's wedding.
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  Speaker 1: She said, Okay, do you like need to go to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital? And I went maybe I was serious. So
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about this, Chuck. What are the mechanisms that
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  Speaker 1: lie behind the cursed and dreaded hangover? Vice algia? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Is that the correct pronunciation. That's how I took it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the medical, minormal medical name for hangover is vice algia. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And it comes from a Norwegian word for uneasiness following
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  Speaker 1: debauchery vise, and a Greek word for pain algaea, which
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  Speaker 1: is weird. I've never seen a Norwegian and Greek put together.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't either, but yeah, you come up with vice algia?
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  Speaker 1: Can I say that? The Bible verse two? Yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's a Bible verse that talks about hangovers. It's Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: five eleven. Woe unto them that rise up early in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, that they may follow strong drink. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: I feel real sorry for you that you had to
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  Speaker 1: get up early if you got hammered last night. Truer
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  Speaker 1: words have never been written in the Bible, least translation
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  Speaker 1: at least translation there. Yeah, so, um so, okay, so
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  Speaker 1: we've got that down. We have the word origin and
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  Speaker 1: a Bible quote, as is pretty much whenever you talk
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  Speaker 1: about a hangover. Right, So what's going on there, Chuck, Well,
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  Speaker 1: there's a bunch of things. Um, let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: start with a vasopressin. Yeah, here's here is, by the way, everyone,
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  Speaker 1: a cocktail party conversation tidbit. So it's your next cocktail party.
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  Speaker 1: You might want to just bring this up. Okay, it
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  Speaker 1: might be kind of depressing to bring this up actually
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  Speaker 1: a cocktail party. Well, this is the This is how
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  Speaker 1: you explain breaking the seal, which I know that you
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  Speaker 1: have experienced. Sure, it's crazy once you once you urinate,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna stick to the clinical terms here, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's keep it above the breaking the seal.
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  Speaker 1: That's clinical. Um, once you urinate, that first time after
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  Speaker 1: you've started drinking, it seems like you just keep going
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  Speaker 1: and going and going, and you can't stop, and you
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  Speaker 1: actually can't, right right, So vasopressing vas a pressing. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: when you drink booze, Uh, it enters your bloodstream and
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  Speaker 1: the pituitary gland blocks the creation of vasopressin and without this,
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  Speaker 1: your kidney starts sending water straight to your bladder basically
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  Speaker 1: right to the tune of four times more than you
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  Speaker 1: actually drink. So you drink two fifty million leaders of alcohol. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you can shoot out up to a thousand milli leaders
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  Speaker 1: or a leader? Is that the clinical term to shoot out? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So that's no mistake. If you've ever had a few
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  Speaker 1: beers and you're thinking, wow, that's so weird. I use
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom and now I can't stop, that's vast oppressing
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  Speaker 1: right there, right, um, And that's called the diuretic effect. Um.
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  Speaker 1: As the the um presence of alcohol increases in the bloodstream, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you expel a lot more water, right, But you're not
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  Speaker 1: just expelling water. Also, we should say this leads directly
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  Speaker 1: to dehydration. If you're expelling four times more liquid than
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  Speaker 1: you're consuming, brother, you're getting dehydrated, which is one of
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  Speaker 1: the signature results of the hangover. And you get the
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  Speaker 1: headache because of that and other things too, you do
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  Speaker 1: and the headache. And we've talked about this before, I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember where, so we probably shouldn't, you know, try
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  Speaker 1: to come up with a time stamp. But um, when
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  Speaker 1: you have a hangover, your brain at truly shrinks the
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  Speaker 1: next day. The other organs in your body are like
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  Speaker 1: you brain, you've got a bunch of water exactly, So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the water is shuffled from your brain
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  Speaker 1: to other organs, causing your brain to actually shrink in size,
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  Speaker 1: which pulls on the membranes that connected to the skull.
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  Speaker 1: The meningingies right, and you know, when you have a
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  Speaker 1: really bad hangover, you wake up and you feel like
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  Speaker 1: the membranes of your skull are being pulled in different
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  Speaker 1: feel like that. So when I read that, I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: so that's what that is. Or like there's a four
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  Speaker 1: hundred pound ham fisted man with hair and his knuckles
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  Speaker 1: like doing little twirls in your head. You know. Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever speaking of breaking the seal? I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they did this in Athens at Georgia, but I know
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  Speaker 1: some friends at Georgia Southern there were bars there that
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  Speaker 1: had the drink till you pee for free promotion. Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever heard of those? No, but it sounds awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Basically like starting at six o'clock, they monitor the bathrooms
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  Speaker 1: and everyone in the bar gets to drink for free
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  Speaker 1: until the first person in the bar goes to the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think they have that in Athens, where
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  Speaker 1: they didn't when I was there. And of course because
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, a college, there's like dudes peeing in
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  Speaker 1: beer pictures in the corner, you know, just to keep
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  Speaker 1: not to not have to pay the two hours whether
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  Speaker 1: or not there's that, you know, uh, contest or promotion.
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  Speaker 1: So it's science science. Uh so, okay, that's vast oppressing, right, yes,
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  Speaker 1: resulting in dehydration. But when you're um urinating everywhere every
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  Speaker 1: which way, whether it's in a beer picture or otherwise, um,
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  Speaker 1: you're also expelling a lot of other needed stuff like electrolytes, salt, potassium, salt, potassium, magnesium,
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  Speaker 1: and these all affect how you're like cells function, how
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  Speaker 1: your muscle's function, right, and you're getting rid of it
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  Speaker 1: without putting it back in. So you're gonna feel lousy. Yes, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: you are going to feel lousy. So you're dehydrated. You've
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  Speaker 1: lost electro lights, right, and the electrolyte and balance is
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  Speaker 1: really important. Um. If you have too much salt in
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  Speaker 1: your electrolyte and balance is too high, uh, you die. Um.
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  Speaker 1: If you have too little, you get the shakes, the tremors,
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  Speaker 1: which I understand is the most uncommon symptom of hangovers,
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  Speaker 1: which makes me nervous because I get the shakes just
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  Speaker 1: about every time. The next day, I've never gotten the shakes.
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  Speaker 1: What I've never gotten the shakes. It also points out
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  Speaker 1: in this article that hangovers are subjective, so for each
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  Speaker 1: person you know, they might experience different like oh, I've
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  Speaker 1: never had a hangover, or when you get the shakes
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  Speaker 1: and you have a loss of a sense of well being, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's like Nick Cage and leaving Las Vegas kind of wow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've always been like, Wow, that'd be great to have
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  Speaker 1: a grocery cart in a liquor store. What a great scene.
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  Speaker 1: Should we talk about glacogen real quick too? Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: another thing you lose. Yes, Um. The glacogen is a
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  Speaker 1: is a key energy source and Uh, it turns it
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  Speaker 1: goes to the liver and turns into glucose. Is that correct, right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: the liver turns it into glucost and then sends it
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  Speaker 1: out basically like what the heck is going on and
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  Speaker 1: just does something and all of a sudden, you've just
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  Speaker 1: lost all of your energies. I'll just pee everything out
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  Speaker 1: just to be sure exactly. Basically it's what's going on. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and that actually accounts for like the weakness the next
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  Speaker 1: day fatigue um. And actually that's not that's not the
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  Speaker 1: only thing that accounts for fatigue. Um. You don't sleep
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  Speaker 1: very well after a night of heavy drinking Gluto mine. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you have gluto mine, which is a another it's actually
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  Speaker 1: a stimulant um natural stimulant, yes, which is the only
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  Speaker 1: good kind of stimulant um. And uh, when you drink alcohol,
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  Speaker 1: the production of this natural stimulant is actually blocked. So
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  Speaker 1: when you stop drinking e g. Go to sleep, your
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  Speaker 1: body tries to make up for lost time and overproduces
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  Speaker 1: glutaman So means you're not getting as gonna sleep exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And the next day you also feel restless and anxious. Um,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you've got the shakes. That's another cocktail party tip.
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  Speaker 1: If you know that if you start saying all these
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  Speaker 1: things that your next cocktail party, you probably won't be
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  Speaker 1: invited back to the next cocktail party. Though, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think you can wow some people. It depends on
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  Speaker 1: how cool your cocktail party. I guess I could see
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  Speaker 1: them all saying that, like, why are you telling us
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  Speaker 1: all these awful things about drinking unless my kind of
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  Speaker 1: cocktail party, it's great for me. Another one, screw glycogen
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  Speaker 1: Its screw vass repressing. Uh so what else? Josh? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we could talk about the impurities of liquor. Okay, well
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  Speaker 1: the different alcohols. Yeah. The rule of thumb is the
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  Speaker 1: darker the alcohol, the more impure it is, and therefore
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  Speaker 1: the the heavier the hangover. Yes, which is why I
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  Speaker 1: think everyone pretty much knows that like your worst alcoholics,
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  Speaker 1: they like start drinking every morning when they wake up,
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  Speaker 1: they're probably drinking vodka. Yes, it's actually a good thing
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  Speaker 1: to drink if you are an alcoholic, because you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to be as close to a function
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  Speaker 1: alcoholic as possible. Right. How about that study with the bourbon, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thirty they did study between bourbon and vodka and uh,
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  Speaker 1: of the people who drank amount of bourbon relative to
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  Speaker 1: their body weight had a severe hangover, and only three
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  Speaker 1: percent had to hangover when they drank vodka. That's a
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  Speaker 1: big white wine that kind of thing. Um, light rum, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: jin Yeah. Conversely, dark rum, it's bad. Tequila is good. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: if it's dark, it's gonna kill you. I'm in bad
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  Speaker 1: shape then, because I'm you know, I mean, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: bourbon red wine beer guy. That's funny. I'm like the
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  Speaker 1: whatever is in the glass guy, Right, that's good. You're
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  Speaker 1: fun to have at the cocktail party because you're not picky. No,
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  Speaker 1: as long as you don't run an ice, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: as long as there's not a cigarette but floating in it,
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  Speaker 1: I'll drink it. And then sometimes even then, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that hasn't happened before, Chuck. Basically, what I took
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  Speaker 1: from this article is when you drink, you are poisoning
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  Speaker 1: your body through coningers. There's through impurities in the alcohol,
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  Speaker 1: but also through the body's natural processes of breaking down
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  Speaker 1: out alcohol too. It Actually, there's a there's a byproduct
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  Speaker 1: produced when the liver metabolizes alcohol, um called acid aldehyde. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: take this one because this kind of I read it
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  Speaker 1: like three times and I was still a little lost. Okay, chuck,
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  Speaker 1: allow me please. So basically, when the liver metabolizes alcohol,
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  Speaker 1: it produces a byproduct that's a toxin called acid aldehyde.
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  Speaker 1: And acid aldehyde is actually more toxic to the body
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  Speaker 1: than alcohol itself, which is crazy. But we have natural
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  Speaker 1: mechanism for neutralizing acid aldehyde called appropriate appropriately enough acid
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  Speaker 1: aldehyde dehydrogenase appropriately so that stuff goes in a tax
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  Speaker 1: the acid aldehyde. Right. Then we have this other stuff
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  Speaker 1: that is called glutoth ione, right, and it contains high
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  Speaker 1: levels of a substance called cysteine, and cysteine actually is
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  Speaker 1: attracted to acid aldehyde. So the two things combine, acid
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  Speaker 1: aldehyde dehydrogenase and the cysteine in the glutoth ione uh,
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  Speaker 1: combined to neutralize the acid aldehyde, right, and it does
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  Speaker 1: it pretty quickly. Um, you you are going to feel
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  Speaker 1: some ill effects. But the less you drink, the easier
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  Speaker 1: it is for these two substances to neutralize this byproduct.
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  Speaker 1: Is the alcohol is metabolized, here's the problem. You have
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  Speaker 1: a limited store of glutothione in your liver, so you
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  Speaker 1: use it up pretty quick. And women have even less
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  Speaker 1: than men exactly, which accounts for why women tendn't have
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  Speaker 1: more harsh hangovers harsher hangovers than men. Sure, not just
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  Speaker 1: body weight, although that does matter. Um. So use up
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  Speaker 1: your glue to th ione stores and once you do that,
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  Speaker 1: you're blood is just basically circulating this toxin acid aldehyde,
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  Speaker 1: while the liver generates more glue to ione. Hence you've
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  Speaker 1: got this horrible hangover and why ultimately time is the
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  Speaker 1: only remedy for it. Yeah, well, let's get to that
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  Speaker 1: in a second. Let's get to the remedies. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about liquor before beer, never fear or is it the
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  Speaker 1: other way around here, Before liquor never sticker or sicker.
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  Speaker 1: There's a little bit of truth to that turns out
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  Speaker 1: because of it when focus to be true totally. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out that the carbonation and beer speeds up
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  Speaker 1: the absorption of alcohol. So if you start with beer,
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  Speaker 1: your body's gonna have and then move on to liquor,
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  Speaker 1: your body is in fact gonna have a harder time
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  Speaker 1: processing those toxins. Even though there's a certain age. My
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  Speaker 1: friend Justin, I you know, Justin, we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: this a few years ago. Someone was remarking about we
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  Speaker 1: had a big night out and like, what was it
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  Speaker 1: liquor before beer before liquor? I can't remember, And I
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  Speaker 1: just said, you know what, it doesn't matter anymore. No,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be hurting. You reach a certain age and
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  Speaker 1: it either doesn't affect you, or it's gonna affect you,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what. Those are college rules. I've noted through
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  Speaker 1: my own personal observations, um that at about age twenty
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  Speaker 1: four you get as you start getting really severe hangovers.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't figured out exactly why yet, but that seems
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  Speaker 1: to be about the age when you switch over from
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  Speaker 1: I can do this constantly to oh God, why why
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  Speaker 1: I've got the sikes. I have a loss of sense
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  Speaker 1: of well being. Right, yeah, I'm vomiting diarrhea. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why. Maybe that's when puberty ends. There's something to
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  Speaker 1: do with hormones still floating around in the buddy. If
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  Speaker 1: you're puberty ended at twenty four, then uh, puberty doesn't
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  Speaker 1: in your twenties. Uh. My pubity ended when I was
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  Speaker 1: like fourteen, I know, could have started when I was seven.
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  Speaker 1: So seven, Uh where are we now? Are we talking
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  Speaker 1: about vomiting? Yeah? It turns out that that actually does help.
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  Speaker 1: And also chuck, um, since we have a drinking game
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  Speaker 1: based on this and we're talking about hangovers, allow me okay,
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  Speaker 1: chuck chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck chuck. That should keep them
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  Speaker 1: for a little while. Go ahead, chuck uh. Alcohol. What's
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  Speaker 1: going on there is it is indeed better to vomit
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  Speaker 1: because when alcohol is absorbed directly through the stomach, and
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  Speaker 1: when that happens, you're the lining of your stomach is
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  Speaker 1: gonna become irritated and say, hey, thanks for putting all
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  Speaker 1: this poison in me. And um, it's gonna start secreting,
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  Speaker 1: secreting hydrochloric acid, right, And the hydrochloric acid is actually
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  Speaker 1: what makes you vomit. Um here sends messages to the brain.
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  Speaker 1: Is really connected to the brain via hormonal signals which
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily end after a pure right and um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: your stomach says you've got to get rid of this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, and it turns out that's you know, you
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  Speaker 1: probably shouldn't make yourself throw up because it's dangerous. It
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  Speaker 1: could become a problem. If you're drinking so much and
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  Speaker 1: you're making yourself throw up, you probably do have a problem.
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  Speaker 1: You should check into a clinic or something. Check into
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Promises in Malibu if you've got the cash. But it
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  Speaker 1: will make you feel a little better because obviously your
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  Speaker 1: body is not gonna have to process whatever alcohol is
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  Speaker 1: still in your stomach. So there you have it. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: what are we on too, now? Buddy? I think we're
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  Speaker 1: we kind of nails what it is. So should we
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  Speaker 1: talk about some of the cures that people spout? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there are plenty of hangover cures. Everybody's got one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and actually I'm surprised to find that some of them
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  Speaker 1: actually are real. Now that you understand what causes a hangover,
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  Speaker 1: you can actually identify what will help cure hangover. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: because really, what's going on is you've expelled electrolytes. It's biology.
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  Speaker 1: You've expelled exactly. You've expelled your natural energy stores. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you are dehydrated and your brain is strung. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: what do you do to make yourself feel better? Chuck?
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  Speaker 1: My personal favorite's hair of the dog. Well, that helped
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  Speaker 1: me or not? Uh? It will not. You know where
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: that comes from? Uh, it's the Bible again, isn't it.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: No Nazareth medieval times though the hair of the dog
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: that bit you. Supposedly, if you got bit by a
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: rabid dog, you would take some of that dog's hair
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: and apply it to your wound, and that will cure you.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: This is the same culture that buried a cab at
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: midnight to cure war exactly. So just like that is
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: false hair the dog. It's faults as well. Having a
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: drink the next day to make yourself feel a little
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: bit better will not work. Might make you feel a
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: bit better in the in the short term, but ultimately
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: you're just adding more toxins that your body is gonna
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: have to process, and you're kind of just staving off
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the inevitable hangover. Unless you just drink all day again. Sure,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: and then you'll have to hang over the following day hangover, Yeah, exactly. Um,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: unless you just keep going until you die, Yeah, and
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: then you you won the game. I was taking a
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: walk with Emily yesterday with the dogs the shows how
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: twisted I am, And I saw it was eight o'clock
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: in the morning, seven thirty in the morning, something like that,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: and there was a guy down the street from us
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: in the parking lot, you know, cracking his first King Cobra,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: And I said, you know what, am I said, ninety
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: nine times out of a hundred. I see those people
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: and I think, God, how could you live your life
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: like just getting bombed for the moment you wake up
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: every day? I said, But every once in a while,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I think what a way to live? She said, she said,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: what is wrong with you? Basically doesn't she Well, she
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: doesn't let me get up and get drunk every day.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: If that's what you mean, that's keeping you in line. Okay,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: she does, Um chuck. One of the things that kills
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: me is drinking coffee. I learned a long time ago
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: that if I ever have a hangover, I stay away
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: from coffee. So I was surprised to find in this
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: article that actually it does have some benefits agreed, which
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: are it will actually um alleviate your headache a little
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: bit because it's caffeine and that's a vasso constructor, so
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: it reduces the your blood vessels. It reduces the swelling,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: so that'll help a little bit. It'll help cure the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: headache some. But it'll dehydrate you because it's a diuretic.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Because it's a diuretic, which is how you really got
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: into this trouble in the first place. So stop being stupid.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I would say coffee along with a lot of water
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: might be a good idea. Possibly, it's just me, right, Okay,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: So what else? Uh, fatty fatty food, fried food the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: next day. Yeah, which is odd because I know I
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: crave fried food the next day. Cheeseburger, bacon chili cheeseburgers,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: like two hamburgers a year, and they're on hangovery days.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: She doesn't eat meat beef at all, but when she
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: wakes up with a really bad hanger, she's like quarter pounder.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: It's very It's strange because obviously she's not the only
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: person who experiences that craving. But that doesn't necessarily help
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Anne could actually make you vomit. It could tip the
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: scales when you've got a bunch of hydrochloric acid in
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: your stomach. But it could help if you ate a
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: bacon chili cheeseburger or two bacon chili cheeseburgers before you
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: started drinking it. Why because it contains oil, and the
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: fat and the grease will line your stomach and pakes
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: longer to digest. Absolutely, And in fact, in the Mediterranean
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: they have long drank a little bit of olive oil
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: before imbibing. Yeah, it's an old thing they do. They
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: are not trying that. I'm not either. I like of
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: but I'm not going to drink a tablespoon of it. No,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: me neither. Okay, Uh, how about a banana. I'm just
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: gonna pull that one out of my head, out of
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: your banana tree um remedy, yes, okay, loaded with potassium
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: electrolytes and because remember you lose potassium, which is an electrolyte,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: so if you can remember, restore the balance. So banana
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: will help your hangover as well. Eggs yes, since we're
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: on breakfast, because they contain cistine, right, which is something
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: that's attracted to acid aldehyde. Right, So eggs in a
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: banana and water would be a great way to start
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: your morning if you had to hangover. Not just water,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: but water loaded with sugar and salt actually right, because
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the carbonation it would do the same thing as it
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: did with the beer. So you want uncarbonated water load
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: of a salt sugar, not a red Bull no, because
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: it has caffeine. Not an energy drink. Uncarbonated non caffeine
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: water with salt sugar, which I think I just described
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: a supports drink, right, A banana and some eggs or
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: you know what else you can do? Set of water,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: put some fruit juice in there. Fruit juice. Fruit juice
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: is the kind of the kind of sugar you want.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Fruit tose and uh, studies have shown that it increases
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: the rate at which your body gets rid of the toxins,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: and uh, that's a good idea. It also gives you
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: vitamins of course. Okay, what about um, say, etcetera. A
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: set of menafin, A seed of menifin is uh, well,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: you you want to avoid etcetera because it has caffeine, right,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: which can help. But ultimately, no, and a seed of
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: menafin I believe you don't want to take because that
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: can mess with your liver. Ultimately, if you have alcohol
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: in your if you take a seed of mena fin
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: for a hangover, you are probably going to feel a
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: little better. Actually you'll probably feel a lot better. But
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: in the long run, your liver is gonna fall apart. Yeah,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: you're doing your body. Damn, You're gonna expel that through
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: your urine. So you want to do is get a
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: non caffeinated anti inflammatory prostaglandin inhibitor, which is also known
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: as aspirin, which is good. So aspirin wal help that
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: it's shown that prostagland in actually uh reeks havoc on
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: your body during hangover. So if you take a prostaglandin inhibitor,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: you're gonna feel a lot better. And apparently there have
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: been studies that show yes, aspirin helps, especially if you
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: take one before you go to bed and you take
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: two when you wake up. But be aware people with
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: tender stomachs often vomit from aspirin. Right, you know what,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: my curious let's talk about each other's cures. Have you
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: got one? Um, surely you do? What do I do?
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: You want to hear mine? Yeah? Mine is? My deal
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: is I can't sleep in anymore. It doesn't matter if
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I was out till three in the morning. I'm still
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: gonna wake up at seven. It's just the way it is.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: When you're old, you'll you'll experience this. One day. I
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: get up at seven like I normally do, and I
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: drink I pound like three or four glasses of water,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: take a couple of aspirin, and then I get right
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: back in bed and see if I can get like
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: another hour to a sleep. And then I wake up
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: in a great that works crazy well, especially works with advil.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: If you take a couple of advil and you have
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: even like a half hour, preferably an hour extra to sleep.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: For some reason, advil always makes me sleepy. It makes
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: me fall asleep very easily. Never figured out why, but yeah,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: you wake up an hour later and you are set.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: It's a great one because sleep is only real, real
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: key to carrying a hangover. They say, yeah, well, time, Well,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: that that's usually what I rely on as time. Um,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: and I pound a few Coca colas in the morning,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: which is not good for me, but it works, right.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: And then aspirin is that what they say? Yeah? And
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: then I don't make eye contact with anybody because they're
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: all out to get me. That's how I make it
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: through the day when I have a hangover. Sure. Yeah,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: we should say, please don't find any of this funny, entertaining,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: or amusing if you're twenty one years or older. And
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: if you are twenty one years or older, please find
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: it amusing responsibly. Uh, we should talk about some of
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: these over the counter, like anti hangover pills that you
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: can buy. You heard of these, yeah, like Chaser's. Yeah,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: they're they're basically multi vitamins. And here's the deal. Well,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: some are activated carbon which cane. But here's the deal.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: If you if you read on the package, it'll say
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: something like this, Um, drink a full glass twelve ounce
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: glass of water before you start drinking, and take a pill.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: And then after your second or third drink, drink another
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: glass of water and take another pill, and then do
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that again. Then before you go to bed, drink a
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: glass of water with a pill, and then wake up
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: and drink a glass of water with a bill. So
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: you're basically taking a vitamin downing tons of water, which
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: is and that's the key is the water. Yeah, you're
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: hydrating yourself. So it's a bit of a rip off, Um,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: but not necessarily because it is recommended that you do
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: take a multi vitamin the next morning. But just take
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: a multi vitamin. Don't pay for some hangover cure. You know.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: What else helps is to actually be cognizant and not
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: a total drunk while you're drinking. Yes, Um, if you
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: drink glass for glass water for alcohol. Number one, it
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: keeps you hydrated, but number two, it also paces your
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: drinking so that your body has more time to process
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: this alcohol. It's not just like bom bom bomb. You
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: know I've gotten better at that. Oh yeah, sure, I
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: try to be If I have like a big night out,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I try to be pretty aware of drinking a cup
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: of glasses of water here and there, and always will
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: pound two or three glasses before I get to bed.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Good for you, Chuck. It's a way to do it,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: all right. So there you have it. That's the hangover, right. Yeah.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: A couple other things you can do beforehand is eat. Obviously,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: alcohol in an empty stomach is gonna get you there quicker,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: but it will get you sicker and make you feel worse.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: So water, what else you say? Multi vitamins? Drinking Moderation,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: of course is the key with everything. Watch what you're drinking,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: red wine, bourbon. It's gonna make you feel bad. Yeah,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: it tastes sugary sweet on your tongue, but it'll make
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: you feel worse. Yeah. I'm in trouble though. I wish
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I could learn to drink vodka. I just don't dig
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: it is so wonderful. Yeah. I drink gin and tonics
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: occasionally during the summertime months, but I can't drink those.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Gin actually makes me crazy. I have a self imposed
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: band on gin. I won't drink it. I don't allow
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: myself to drink it because it makes me nuts and
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: apparently not the only one. In the seventeenth century, the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: UK actually banned, or I should say England banned because nuts. Yeah. Yeah,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: so jin was banned in England for a little while
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: because people went like I did. Sure, you know, different
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: alcohols through that. Tequila is notorious for making people violent,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: and the act out of Sorts never had a problem
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: with the quela. I mean neither. My buddy Scottie has
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: a red wine thing. Completely personality shift when he drinks it, really,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: but yeah, it becomes a completely different person. You know,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Alexander the Great died from a red wine drinking competition. Really,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: one of his soldiers challenged into it and they apparently
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: drank like five million gallons apiece, and Alexander's a great
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: one off and died. Boy. I bet the alcohol back
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: then was rough too, man. Yeah, you know, they love
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: their wine. Those are the good old days. Well, if
• 29:15
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• 29:19
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• 30:09
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• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this, uh, don't kill me. I'm just
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the enumerator. This is a good one. Hi, guys, hope
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: this finds you well. My name is Mark and I
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: live in fish Kill, New York, which is an interesting town.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I was listening to the Gross National Happiness podcast and
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you mentioned the census worker being killed. I thought i'd
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: send an email. I was a Census Bureau worker in
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: two thousand. It was I was a care free nineteen
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: year old on summer break. My friends and I saw
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the ad in the paper and took the exam and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: became official enumerators, including a shiny plastic badge from the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Treasury Department to boot. He says. So, our task was
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: a travel door to door and talked to the people
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: who didn't return their survey. Some people got the short form,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: some got the long form, arm and former. I remember
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the forms were assigned at random. Usually the long formers
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: didn't mail them back in and uh, that's who they
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: usually had to confront, shakedown and shake them down. Uh.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: People were downright mean when I knocked on their door.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: One this is a good one. One man asked me
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to hold on for a second. He closed the door,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and within a few minutes I heard the garage door
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: open and he drove out and waved goodbye. It's such
• 31:25
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• 31:28
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• 31:30
  Speaker 1: dogs barking, and the next thing I knew, she had
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: let the dogs loose on us, and I was running
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: safely back to my safety of my Buick Regal quickly
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: learned my lesson, and when someone would open the door
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and give me the skinny on their neighbors who didn't
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: mail their forms back in, I was happy. And I
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: was even happier when it was a grandma who would
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: offer me a cold drink, because you know, the old folks,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: they're just like, come on in, let's talk for a while. Exactly. Um.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I did not know, however, that enumerators were killed. I
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: must have missed that part of the training. Uh. Most
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: of the rants would be anti government. They would say
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I was the man sold to get off their property
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and all the expertives that go with it. It's not
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: being it's not easy being an enumerator, So give them
• 32:14
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• 32:17
  Speaker 1: out there. Hey, hey, And that's pretty much it, he
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: uh said. I thought i'd chime in. Actually I was
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: chiming in this morning in the car, and then realized
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: that I was alone. So Mark so lonely. Mark the
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: former enumerator is a funny guy. And he says, by
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the way, podcast suggestion, how hippie rob works. Oh that's
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: a good one. That would be a great one. That'd
• 32:35
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• 32:38
  Speaker 1: thanks Mark, and good luck if you enumerate in the future,
• 32:42
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• 32:45
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• 32:47
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• 32:51
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