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Here’s how to separate fact from fiction on treating a hangover.

Editor’s Note: Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Are you celebrating the first day of 2023 with a hangover? If so, you might be looking for a method to ease your misery. There are certainly a lot of so-called hangover cures, some dating back centuries.

The alcohol we drink, called ethyl alcohol or ethanol, is the byproduct of fermenting carbohydrates and starches, usually some sort of grain, grape or berry. While it may create some tasty beverages, ethanol is also a solvent, Brick said. “It cuts through grease in your stomach much the same way it cleans grease off oily car parts,” he said. Instead, experts suggest using food to prevent hangovers, by eating before you have that first drink.

 

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Coffee, food, aspirin and weed. In that order.

Oh yeah ima try all of these. Woke up feeling like I got hit by a train, then ran over by a bus.

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