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A hangover is the experience of various unpleasant physiological and psychological effects usually following the consumption of alcohol, such as wine, beer, and liquor. Hangovers can last for several hours or for more than 24 hours.
Vomiting can be the result of ailments like food poisoning, gastroenteritis, pregnancy, motion sickness, or hangover; or it can be an after effect of diseases such as brain tumors, elevated intracranial pressure, or overexposure to ionizing radiation. [2]
A hangover day is basically all about detoxing the body from alcohol—your liver is gonna work hard today, friends—and putting a bunch of hydrating nutrients back into your system.
It's true that hangovers can happen when your body gets too much bad liquid (alcohol) and not enough of the good kind (water). However, Kovacs says chugging water can put undue stress on your body .
The spins (as in having "the spins") [1] is an adverse reaction of intoxication that causes a state of vertigo and nausea, [2] causing one to feel as if "spinning out of control", [3] especially when lying down.
Alcohol is known to potentiate the insulin response of the human body to glucose, which, in essence, "instructs" the body to convert consumed carbohydrates into fat and to suppress carbohydrate and fat oxidation. [63] [64] Ethanol is directly processed in the liver to acetyl CoA, the same intermediate product as in glucose metabolism.
4. Champagne. The bubbles in the bubbly are here to trick you. Carbonation speeds up alcohol absorption, so you’re tipsier faster — and on a crash course with a hangover before you know it.
In the body, ethanol primarily affects the central nervous system, acting as a depressant and causing sedation, relaxation, and decreased anxiety. The complete list of mechanisms remains an area of research, but ethanol has been shown to affect ligand-gated ion channels, particularly the GABA A receptor .