Hangovers

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One time while drinking with friends someone brought up the concern that he didnt want to get a hangover. Someone replied that hangovers are only from beer, not liquor. Is this true?

That is the most laughable bunch of shit Iv ever heard of. Im an experienced hang over sufferer, been thru a hella lot of them, I v ha them from tequilla, rum, vodka,beer, mixed drinks you name it.The alchohol dehydrates you and taxes your liver, thats why your sick, what the source of the alchy is from, freally has no bearing on having a hang over.

thanks. thats what i thought, hangovers are mostly from dehydration which can occur from any drink. i knew this kid was an ass.

There are at least three causes proposed for hangovers, and probably all are significant:1. Dehydration, because alcohol makes you urinate more than you drink. This would be worse with stronger drinks, because you'd take in more alcohol and less water.2. Loss of B-group vitamins that get flushed out of your system.3. The higher alcohols ("fusel oil"), which are more toxic than ethanol, the main alcohol. There would be a greater proportion of higher alcohols in beer and wine than in spirits; vodka would be particularly low in them.

Since I can't sleep, I'll post here instead. :laughing:

I must be special or something. I don't get hungover. But then, I am odd... I know my limits really well, because they're pretty simple... I have really high alcohol tolerance, but then I get hit hard. So I can chug down 3/4 bottle of 151 (which is ENORMOUSLY ridiculous, given my size) without feeling it, but one more shot and I'll be so smashed I don't know what my name is. Like the time I got into an eyelock with this cheeky b**ch who wouldn't stop staring me down... Derek came in and got in my way, and the girl was gone. I spent forever trying to find her, but I didn't figure it out until the morning that I had been looking into a mirror, and Derek had been worried that I was going to punch out the glass and cut up with it (as was my habit), and it took me all night to figure out where she went. It was my reflection... :laughing: Ooops. In my defense, I had just gotten all dolled up for my birthday, so it was hard to recognise me. :laughing:

But back on topic, I've found if you're worried about getting hungover, match water for alcohol ounce for ounce (or more, but that should suffice). Two benefits: 1. you don't get dehydrated, 2. it helps keep you from getting too drunk, too fast. If you chase every shot with as much water, it takes you half as long to get to where you get full.

And slighty off-topic: if you want to get wasted but not puke on yourself, eat a piece of toast. You get smashed just as fast, but it keeps your stomach a bit calmer. peace and happy drinking... :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Some of my most significant hangovers have been from drinking vodka, seeing as how I dont waste good vodka but drink it poured over ice, we cant blame anything I mix it with.I also learned long long ago that the worst hang over is from drinking beer and vodka and whiskey and what ever else I throw into my stomache only to erupt later on that night thru the same door it entered.While you may have valid points in your post, drinking too much of ANY of it will earn you a hangover

Red wine seems to be particularly bad for hangovers, due to research done by myself and my closest friends LOL Vodka, now i never get hungover with vodka unless i drink a bottle to myself like last week and then OMG, but still, didn't throw up or have a headache just felt yuk!

we were drinking white rum and vodka by the way

hahahaha thats fucking funny. the worst i ever got smashed was by drinking 6 beer in like an hour. we also had a LOT of pot being passed around tho..i puked like 6 times....i know my limit now..im a fucking cheap drunk. like 2 beer and im buzzed...but i cant drink beer now (im turned from it).

Totally agree about vodka Angel!

There are many different kinds of alcohol. The one we all talk about drinking is ethyl alcohol. It's the kind the body is designed to deal with...all the others are toxic and give us a hangover. The thing is that when alcohol is created, all types of alcohol are created...not just the ethyl. When we distill liquers, we get rid of a lot of the impurities. That's why some folks don't get much of a hangover with high-quality liquers (vodka, for example). They don't have as high a percentage of the toxic kinds of alcohol because they've been distilled out. This is why wine will give you more of a hangover than vodka (or any other high-quality distilled spirits). Note that there are other factors, too. Alcohol does dry you out...which can be remedied by drinking a full glass or two of water before you hit the hay, along with three or so aspirin. Try it...you'd be surprised. There are also a lot of imported beers that use formaldihyde as a preservative...which is toxic and will give you a hangover as well.Bottom line: Drink smart and take a few precautions and you can minimize the anguish of the following day.

There are many different kinds of alcohol. > . . .> This is why wine will give you more of a hangover than vodka How many different types of alcohol are there? What kinds of alcohol, besides ethyl alcohol (ethanol), do you find in spirits and wine? On a tangent, according to a 2003 research paper, "Alcohol intake is associated with a significantly increased risk of rectal cancer but the risk seems to be reduced when wine is included in the alcohol intake."

web page All kinds are found in the alcohol we drink as nothing is 100% pure...there are always these other kinds of alcohol in small proportions as well. Distilling alcohol helps eliminate the impurities.

After 75 words that didn't list any alcohols besides etanol and methanol, the article said, "Get the full article with a FREE Trial". I don't want to join the Britannica site. Would you be kind enough to point to another Web page with the info, or could you just list them? And do you have any information that whatever they are, that they contribute to hangovers? Or are you talking about methanol?Wine is full of complex substances, some of which are poisonous in large quantities; e.g., methanol and acetone. Did you have something else in mind?---------------------------------------------------------------In reply to:“There’s good evidence emerging that the chief cause of hangover is acute withdrawal from alcohol,” says Mack Mitchell, M.D., vice president of the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation in Baltimore, and assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. “The cells in your brain physically change in response to the alcohol’s presence; when the alcohol is gone, you go through withdrawal until those cells get used to doing without the alcohol.” Couple that with the effects alcohol has on the blood vessels in your head (they can swell significantly), and you end up living through a day after that you’d rather forget. (I don't know what the original source of this quote is.)

Ethylene glycol, Glycerin and Isopropyl are all alcohols...and there are many more once you understand how alcohols are merely chains of carbon surrounded hydrogen with on occasional hydroxyl (OH) in place of a hydrogen. All are toxic and are byproducts of creating alcoholic beverages. By controlling the conditions of creating alcohol (mainly temperature), the toxic variants are greatly diminished (though not eliminated). If you want to know more, do a search yourself.

If you want to know more, do a search yourself.After clicking on your not-very-useful link, I did. I didn't get the idea that those things you mentioned were a big issue in why wine (like red wine, aged in oak barrels) causes hangovers. There are toxic substances that leech out of the barrels, and which become neutralized with aging.Should I just take your word for it? Even after the speed of light discussion?

If you're truly interested in knowing, and not just puffing yourself up with some kind of false pride, then you'd be out searching the internet on the whole fermentation process from a chemical perspective and coupling that with info on what causes hangovers (there are several reasons, the topic currently under discussion being only one of them) instead of being such a pontificating windbag.

wine makes me blackout.

Liquor as well as beer both give hangovers; in my personal experience, beer is always worse. Beer always gives me major gastrointestinal problems, whereas I can take liquor like a champion. Depends on the person I guess.

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