What causes hangover symptoms? And what are the best ways to relieve them?
The root cause of all hangovers is, of course, drinking alcohol. If you drink enough and end up with a hangover, it means you’ve ingested more alcohol than your body can metabolize efficiently. The toxins in alcohol build up in your body and make you feel sick. A chief culprit is a chemical called acetaldehyde. This is an alcohol by-product that research suggests may cause the worst of your hangover symptoms. Congeners are another cause of hangovers. These are impurities created during the fermentation process in some types of alcohol. Low quality wines and many dark liquors tend to have high levels of congeners. The rule of thumb is the darker your drink, the w
