What makes the hangover so terrible, terrible, painful and bad

The hangover and the horrible headaches that accompany it are caused by chemical changes in your body that occur as soon as you drink your first drink.

Here is a transcript of the video.

Ahhh. Your head hurts. You are nauseated. You are painful. And you are certainly: never. While drinking. Again. The only thought that runs through your foggy mind is: Why is a hangover the worst thing?

Let's go back to last night. As you take this badtail, the alcohol migrates to the liver where the enzymes break it down. But if you keep drinking, your liver can not keep up. Thus, alcohol overflows into your bloodstream and goes to other organs, like your brain. There he removes a hormone called vasopressin. Normally, vasopressin prevents you from urinating too much. So without that, we must pee All the time, you dehydrate in the process.

This helps to explain your brutal headache the next morning. But there are other chemicals at work, such as pro-inflammatory cytokines. These are small proteins that stimulate inflammation, which causes symptoms such as nausea, nervousness, and headaches. And people who have a hangover have tons of them in their blood.

In fact, when the researchers injected pro-inflammatory cytokines to sober people, they felt the hangover without any prior fun. Now scientists do not know exactly why consumption causes this type of inflammatory reaction. However, some evidence shows that it is more serious when you drink darker spirits. In one study, participants who drank bourbon instead of vodka reported that their hangover symptoms were 36% worse the next morning.

Then there is this terrible anxiety of the morning … sometimes called anxiety. And no, it's not this guilt that you feel as a result of the bad decisions you made the night before. It's actually biological. Anxiety begins to develop when you finally drop the last empty badtail glbad. You see, until then your brain has intensified the activity of receptors called GABA. They are what gives you this soothing buzz. And at the same time, it blocks glutamate, a stimulant related to anxiety.

But when you stop drinking, he turns around. Your brain is drained of these soothing GABA receptors and invades with stimulating glutamate, which can make you anxious at the time of the morning. It can also disturb your sleep and wake you up tired.

But enough bad news. How can you get rid of this nasty hangover? Sorry to say, a greasy breakfast is not the cure you might think. Your body lacks water – no fat. Your best choice is to hydrate yourself and take an anti-inflammatory. Chances are, the hangover will disappear within 24 hours. Or at least in time for the next weekend.