Tips for avoiding the worst consequence of holiday overindulgence.
From Harvard Health Publications

Hangovers seem to be the body’s way of reminding us about the hazards of overindulgence. Physiologically, it’s a group effort: Diarrhea, fatigue, headache, nausea, and shaking are the classic symptoms. Sometimes, systolic (the upper number) blood pressure goes up, the heart beats faster than normal, and sweat glands overproduce — evidence that the “fight or flight” response is revved up. Some people become sensitive to light or sound. Others suffer a spinning sensation (vertigo).

The causes are as varied as the symptoms. Alcohol is metabolized into acetaldehyde, a substance that’s toxic at high levels, although concentrations rarely get that high, so that’s not the complete explanation.

Drinking interferes with brain activity during sleep, so a hangover may be a form of sleep deprivation. Alcohol scrambles the hormones that regulate our biological clocks, which may be why a hangover can feel like jet lag, and vice versa. Alcohol can also trigger migraines, so some people may think they’re hung over when it’s really an alcohol-induced migraine they’re suffering.

Hangovers begin after blood alcohol levels start to fall. In fact, according to some experts, the worst symptoms occur when levels reach zero.

The key ingredient seems to be “drinking to intoxication”; how much you drank to get there is less important. In fact, several studies suggest that light and moderate drinkers are more vulnerable to getting a hangover than heavy drinkers. Yet there’s also seemingly contradictory research showing that people with a family history of alcoholism have worse hangovers. Researchers say some people may end up with drinking problems because they drink in an effort to relieve hangover symptoms.

Dr. Robert Swift, a researcher at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rhode Island, coauthored one of the few review papers on hangovers in 1998. It’s still one of the most frequently cited sources on the topic. The rundown on hangover remedies that follows is based on that review, an interview with Dr. Swift, and several other sources.

Hair of the dog.
Drinking to ease the symptoms of a hangover is sometimes called taking the hair of the dog, or hair of the dog that bit you. The notion is that hangovers are a form of alcohol withdrawal, so a drink or two will ease the withdrawal.

There may be something to it, says Dr. Swift. Both alcohol and short-acting sedatives, such as benzodiazepines like diazepam (Valium), interact with GABA receptors on brain cells, he explained, and it’s well documented that some people have withdrawal symptoms from short-acting sedatives as they wear off. Perhaps the brain reacts similarly as blood alcohol levels begin to drop.

Even so, Dr. Swift advises against using alcohol as a hangover remedy. “The hair of the dog just perpetuates a cycle,” he says. “It doesn’t allow you to recover.”

Drink fluids.
Alcohol promotes urination because it inhibits the release of vasopressin, a hormone that decreases the volume of urine made by the kidneys. If your hangover includes diarrhea, sweating, or vomiting, you may be even more dehydrated. Although nausea can make it difficult to get anything down, even just a few sips of water might help your hangover.

Get some carbohydrates into your system.
Drinking may lower blood sugar levels, so theoretically some of the fatigue and headaches of a hangover may be from a brain working without enough of its main fuel. Moreover, many people forget to eat when they drink, further lowering their blood sugar. Toast and juice is a way to gently nudge levels back to normal.

Avoid darker-colored alcoholic beverages.
Experiments have shown that clear liquors, such as vodka and gin, tend to cause hangovers less frequently than dark ones, such as whiskey, red wine, and tequila. The main form of alcohol in alcoholic beverages is ethanol, but the darker liquors contain chemically related compounds (congeners), including methanol. According to Dr. Swift’s review paper, the same enzymes process ethanol and methanol, but methanol metabolites are especially toxic, so they may cause a worse hangover.

Take a pain reliever, but not Tylenol.
Aspirin, ibuprofen (Motrin, other brands), and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may help with the headache and the overall achy feelings. NSAIDs, though, may irritate a stomach already irritated by alcohol. Don’t take acetaminophen (Tylenol). If alcohol is lingering in your system, it may accentuate acetaminophen’s toxic effects on the liver.

Drink coffee or tea.
Caffeine may not have any special anti-hangover powers, but as a stimulant, it could help with the grogginess. Coffee is a diuretic, though, so it may exacerbate dehydration.

Vitamin B6.
A study published over 30 years ago found that people had fewer hangover symptoms if they took a total of 1,200 milligrams of vitamin B6 before, during, and just after drinking to get drunk. But it was a small study and doesn’t seem to have been replicated.

Artichoke extract.
Supplement makers have promoted artichoke extract for a variety of ills, including hangovers, because it supposedly has beneficial effects on the liver. But a small study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in 2004 concluded that it isn’t effective for hangovers.

Posted: December 1st, 2007 by Kat Path
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Boredback Mountain

I heard a lot about this gay western in the past year saying is was one of the best love movie of all time and a good movie for the gay community . I gay friend give me the movie to watch with my girl friend and told me we will make passionate love after (take god I did not spend a dime for it). According to comments on IMDB it’s: One of the greatest, saddest, most heartbreaking films ever made, a haunting love story that will last through the ages.

Their is no way to be more wrong! The movie sucks and when a mean sucks it’s not literally. The movie is as painfull as a anal fist fucking with no lube. It’s long and boring, no characters development, useless camera wide shoot kill the beat of the movie. BTW we did not make love after, we had to rent an asian schoolgirl lesbians porno to make us in the mood but that is another story.

Filmaking: 2/10 yes there is nice shoot of the mountains and the clouds in the sky, a few nice camera angle but the problem is that it does not add a lot to the story in fact it’s mostly usless and kill the pace of the movie. She could have use a wide plan of the mountains to show lonelyness, isolation or beauty. I said she could but did not.

Soundtrack: 0/10 one song (some kind of new age country music) playing through out the movie. Again you should use a music to help the dialog and the action, feeling etc. Was not done.

Acting: 2/10 They are gay and in love? My god thanks to the fact that I readed the back of the box. Is it because they feel mix feeling? They both looked uncomfortable and disgusted at what they were doing. The way I see it is that they where alone, drunk and needed sex so they had sex to releived sexual tensions. They did not kiss or acted cute to each other, did not had smiles or anything. I never, not once beleived they where in love. Do you know how peoples look when they are in love? You are happy, day dreaming and it’s the same if you are gay even 40 or 400 years ago. If you are not sure are it’s supposed to look like, download my a gay porn movie and learn from it.

Story: 1/10 A good movie for the gay community? Sure gays are always doomed to loneliness and misfortune and miserable, unhappy lives and grizzly deaths. They are not allowed to live happy ever after. You did not know? You did not learn that in church? Sinners always have the same destiny, it’s God and Ang Lee will.

Entertaining: 0/10 It’s slow… NO it’s boring! No characters development, long useless silence and camera angle. Sure speech is silver and silence is golden but when you are unable to understand some actors dialogs unless you have captionning it does not really help. Silence is golden if you can see and understand feeling and emotions without words and for that you need genuine emotions or good acting something we lack here. When Jack is supposely crying because Penis oups Ennis left, it look to me that he was puking because he was disgusted by what he done since his lips does not move. It span across 20 years but they do not aged (only on the last scene) and have no idea how long it have been between scenes. Their is snow in summer? And it’s only one exemple how that movie is not well edited and full of historical errors.

Final word, it’s not that I don’t like love movies or because I’m not gay or a girl pmsing that I hated the movie. My girl was pmsing and she didn’t like the movie either. I love to watch a good love movie or girly movie like Ghost or Grease but that movie was nothing like that.

Posted: June 11th, 2006 by Kat Path
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