The Quick-Fix Hangover Detox: 99 Ways to Feel 100 Times Better

By Jane Scrivner

Escape the Hangover From Hell

If you wake up after a night out and reach for pain relievers before even opening your eyes, help is at hand. Bestselling detox author Jane Scrivner reveals strategies for preventative measures before you drink, damage limitation while you drink, and recovery remedies after you drink, including:

Which drinks to enjoy and when you should just say no
Natural remedies you already own that-shockingly-will make that nausea disappear
Permission to eat. All day. Seriously.
The Quick-Fix Hangover Detox is your ticket out of morning regret-without missing any of the nighttime fun.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Release date: Apr 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781402249884

Jane Scrivner

Jane Scrivner has worked in the skincare and therapy industry for eighteen years. She has published nine books on the subject of Detox, including the bestselling Detox Yourself. She lives in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.

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HEALTH WARNING

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Frequent reports have been written about the nutritional value of alcohol and its possible benefits in some cases, in regulated amounts. But whatever the findings, it is still a fact that alcohol in excess is damaging to your health, addictive, and destructive.

The only way to avoid a hangover is to not drink. Providing you with a hangover detox should in no way give the impression that you can drink to excess with no ill side effects from now on. On the contrary, excess drinking is bad for you, your body, and your long-term health. If you think you may have a problem, please seek professional advice immediately.

If any of the warning signs listed below apply to you, please consult your GP for help with controlling your alcoholic intake:

You believe your drinking is damaging your health.

You regularly drink more than the nationally recommended amounts.

You feel you need to have a drink in order to function.

You regularly drink alone to excess.

You drink too much and lose judgment when drinking.

1 Trip down memory lane—some hangover facts

Hangovers affect people in many different ways, but some of the most common and familiar side effects of excessive drinking are headaches, nausea, dehydration, and tiredness.

Headaches are mainly caused by dehydration—your brain becomes prunelike.

Nausea is generally due to an empty acid stomach churning away (think green bile slopping about!).

Dehydration occurs because alcohol is a diuretic—it actually encourages you to urinate and expel electrolytes that are needed for essential cell growth and repair, and your kidneys have to work overtime to process the excess fluids.

And tiredness is due to the work your body is having to do to get better—not to mention the fact that you probably didn’t get to bed before tomorrow and that when you did, your sleep was disturbed and fitful.

How could you do this to yourself?!

2 Water—the elixir of life

Dehydration is the main reason for feeling so awful after indulging. Alcohol is a diuretic—it actually encourages your body to lose fluids. So before, during, and after your session you absolutely must drink at least 1.5 liters or 3 pints of water a day. (You should be drinking this amount every day anyway.) This will help your body in two main