This one can vs ten pints? Basically David v Goliath?
You might have the best night of your life with your mates, downing pints and singing along to your favourite songs but you can practically guarantee you’re going to feel like microwaved s**t in the morning.
Yeah, yeah, you brag about how you ‘never get hangovers’, but more than most of us who drink have all woken up at least once wishing we could crawl into a hole and rot.
The pounding headache, the sickness, the hangxiety – all leaving you questioning if it was even worth it in the first place.
But in what sounds like some kind of miracle, sci-fi film creation, there’s a new ‘hangover cure’ drink claiming to reverse the effects in just 30 minutes.
And no, it’s not the hair of the dog or an orange Lucozade.
It’s basically magic, supposedly. (@drinksafetyshot/Instagram)
Safety Shot is the latest addition to all those products claiming to banish our hangovers by breaking down alcohol and replenishing the nutrients we need to help recovery.
The Centre for Applied Health Sciences in the US found in a study that the drink can take action in just 30 minutes. But, of course, some experts are sceptical fo just how effective and quick the stuff is.
Hoping to allow drinkers to ‘never lose a day’, Safety Shot launched in the US before Christmas and quickly sold out.
It’s not actually available in the UK just yet but apparently is planned to launch before the end of the year.
The drink claims to reduce residual alcohol form being absorbed in the gut ‘by creating a shield around the gut wall’. It also says it reduces blood alcohol content through ‘several factors that help process alcohol more efficiently’.
Plus, with the combination of vitamins, minerals and amino acids, it’s supposed to help your body maintain hydration.
Then again, we’d try anything to bin off a hangover. (@drinksafetyshot/Instagram)
And Safety Shot’s final ‘step’ in supposedly curing a hangover is that it improves the overall feeling of wellbeing ‘through a cocktail of nootropics and vitamins’.
While some people seem to claim it works, a journalist who tested it for The Guardian found it didn’t quickly decrease her blood alcohol but affected her ‘alertness’.
Experts are pretty mixed on it too, and researcher at University of Salford, Sam Royle, told The Sun: “The mechanisms underlying hangovers are not fully understood, and whilst the product does include some ingredients that may be supposed to reduce inflammation or oxidative stress, which are thought to play a role in hangover symptomology, there are no actual, validated, hangover cures,” he told The Sun.
And registered nutritional therapist, Lauren Johnson Reynolds said it might ‘help you feel better’, but isn’t so sure it could get the alcohol from your system so fast.
“I would be sceptical about the blood alcohol content being reduced that quickly, but I can see how it might make a person feel better,” she said.
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