Unwanted drinking parties frequently occur among freshmen entering the new semester or new employees taking their first steps into society. People who are not in the same condition as they used to be or those who are weak in alcohol may be worried and burdened by these drinking parties. For you, pharmacist Oh Jung-seok introduced three survival tips for drinking parties.
Survival tips at drinking partiesㅣSource: iClick Art
1. Establish ‘Anjubal’
First, you need to set up ‘anjubal’. When you drink alcohol, about 30% of the alcohol is absorbed directly into the blood through the stomach wall. When the stomach is empty, the area of the stomach wall that alcohol touches is larger, so absorption occurs more quickly. This is why you get drunk quickly when you drink on an empty stomach.
When it comes to side dishes, eat protein-rich foods rich in B vitamins. When alcohol enters the body, it becomes acetaldehyde, and if this component is not broken down quickly, it is easily drunk. Vitamin B promotes the breakdown of acetaldehyde. Protein helps regenerate liver cells, and improves fatty liver by synthesizing lipoproteins that envelop fat and transport it to the blood. Take care of your liver so you don’t get drunk easily. This is because the liver secretes an enzyme that decomposes acetaldehyde, which is the cause of drunkenness and hangover.
2. Drink water
If you don’t want to eat snacks for fear of gaining weight, drink a lot of water. Water should be drunk in a ratio of 1:1 to alcohol, one glass of water per glass of alcohol. Water not only dilutes the alcohol to make you less intoxicated, but it is also effective in relieving hangovers by excreting alcohol through urine. If you drink soda instead of water because you don’t drink well, you will get drunk faster. This is because carbon dioxide stimulates the stomach wall and promotes alcohol absorption.
3. Take hangover cures and soy sauce
Hangover cures are most effective when taken 30 minutes before drinking alcohol. Eating a hangover cure increases the activity of the enzyme that decomposes acetaldehyde, so acetaldehyde can be more smoothly decomposed when alcohol is consumed.
Representative liver agents include silymarin and UDCA (ursodeoxycholic acid). The two components have different principles of action and characteristics. Silymarin prevents hepatocytes from being damaged and helps regenerate hepatocytes through protein synthesis. While silymarin acts directly on the liver, UDCA promotes bile excretion and indirectly improves liver function. Bile plays a role in excreting various toxins or waste products metabolized in the liver out of the body. Since the mechanism and efficacy of the two components are different, taking them together is more effective as a liver agent.
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