How to Get Rid of a Hangover

We’ve all woke up with a splitting headache after a night out. It feel like someone lodged an icepick behind your eyeball. Add to that a dry mouth and aches and pains all over. It’s miserable. All you want to do is wish the pain away but that doesn’t work very well does it. A hangover can ruin your day if you let it.

This post shows you how to avoid a hang over and fix one if the damage is already done.

How to Stop a Hangover

The best way to get rid of a hangover is to prevent it in the first place. Do this by staying hydrated while drinking.

Order a water with every drink. Have your liquor on the rocks. This way you get some water with your alcohol and wake up fresh as a daisy.

Don’t mix booze

This can cause a worse hangover. Pick a liquor and stick to it. Whiskey, vodka, it doesn’t matter. Pick one and stick to it.

High quality spirits

A quality over quantity approach goes a long way here. Top shelf spirits out more but they save you a lot of grief in the morning.

Keep it clean and clear

Keep your drink order simple. Don’t order anything with sugar water or syrup. The more pure the drink the better. (And less likely to cause a hangover.)

Twist of lime

The vitamin C in limes (and maybe some other type of magical compound in the little green citrus) helps stave off hangovers.

I don’t know what it is about lime juice, but it helps prevent hangovers. That’s been my persoal experience anyway. It’s not 100% effective (far from it) but drinking vodka + water with lots of limes, while pounding high quality H2O from the bar gun really softens the blow.

For that reason, I order extra limes whenever I get a beverage. (I typically drink vodka water, or Corona beer when I go out).

For what ever reason, whenever I ask for ‘lots of extra limes’ the bartender usually gives me a comedic amount of limes. Like the entire rim of my drink will be full of lime wedges. It’s so ridiculous that it becomes a spectacle and people comment on it. I’ve made friends this way. It’s hilarious.

Anyway, I’ll squeeze lime juice into my drink. It added a fresh taste and The lime juice seems to help prevent hangovers.

Now, when I go out for a nice dinner I’ll usually have wine. And I never drink before 5 o’clock (unless it’s a pool day). I’m not trying to get blasted. Booze kills your gain and your brain cells. But hey, I’m not here to tell you how to live your life. Some people like the sauce. And it’s not all that bad if you can keep it under control.

Chug water before bed

And I mean CHUG. Drink at least 32 ounces of water before bed. Drink as much as you can handle. Pound that shit. You’ll think yourself in the morning. If you’re worried about pissing the bed it means you were too drunk to begin with and the water actually helped you not hate yourself in the morning.

Eat well

Eat your steak eggs and salad throughout the day leading up to a night out. Drinking saps nutrients from your body which makes a bad hangover. Keep full of nutrients to help counteract the effects of alcohol.

If you overdo it and wake up feeling like death. I know it’s a struggle to do anything but the best thing to do is force yourself to chug water. Lots of water. That’s step one.

Hydrate

If you messed up and feel like shit after a night out, here’s what you do. It might get a little worse before it gets better but just push through and you’ll be glad you did.

Immediately consume as much water as you can. Gatorade is the classic but here’s something even better than Gatorade: a mix of water, lemon and salt.

That’s right, fill a tall glass with water and squeeze fresh lemon juice into it. Add salt and slam it. Have another after that. Down the hatch. The salty, tangy, sweet flavors help get the fluid down easy. Sometimes water if just too bland when you’re hungover.

Sweat

Go have a sauna. Sit in the sauna and sweat out all that booze. Take a jug of water with you and sip on it while you sweat.

Watch the magic happen. Feel the headache fade away. Seriously, the sauna is like pressing the reset button on your day when you have a hangover. It totally annihilates it. Make sure you keep hydrating all day otherwise the headache can creep back in.

Obviously if you’re not legal drinking age. Don’t drink.

What not to do when you have a hangover

Drink alcohol

No. This is a bad idea. The idea is to get better and this just postpones the inevitable. You’re kicking the can down the street.

Unless you’re on a bender, hair of the dog is not the play here. Don’t drink booze to stop the adverse effects of booze. it makes no sense.

No that we’ve cleared the air. Try not to get blasted too much. It’s not good for you. And it’s not good for your training either.

That’s all I’ve got to say about that for now.

Until next time.