After a team of US scientists debunked the stellar role played by coffee in the hangover saga, the holiday season had left many a reveller cheerless about facing the morning after. Though many cures for that nasty hangover exist — from harmless hydration techniques to the really vile ones involving raw eggs in Worcestershire sauce — true tipplers have always known that there really is just one that works: staying drunk.
And now, thanks to some research by an Indian-origin nutritional therapist (why are we not surprised?), Gurpareet Bains, you can drink your way out of the aftershocks. All you have to do before hitting the bar is prepare a very special concoction involving natural ‘superfoods’ like ajwain, acai (jamun), pomegranate, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and, you guessed it, oodles of vodka. So, instead of following up a drinking binge by cringing in the dark corners, all you need to
do to crawl back into the game is throw a few shots of this magic potion down the hatch, and you’re good to go.
In case you’re wondering about the choice of vodka, earlier this month, research from Brown University had revealed that lighter liquors were less likely to give you that lurking headache than the darker ones, murkier as they are due to the presence of an extra shot of toxins. Well, here’s a sobering thought: with all these studies geared towards finding a cure for our hangovers, is it any wonder, then, that scientists are still clueless about how to make us stop drinking in the first place. But with all that holiday cheer reaching a groggy crescendo, who are we to argue with the experts?
So, the next time you spot that hip flask, don’t worry, it’s just a harmless antidote.