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Eat before, drink water after, or even just eat a banana the next morning - all of these methods will not really help you with the hangover. What will help? Maybe this very simple device


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The way to lower the level of alcohol in your body in seconds

Eat before, drink water after, or even just eat a banana the next morning - all of these familiar methods probably won't really help you with the hangover.

What will help?

Maybe this very simple device

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Wednesday, 18 November 2020, 13:49

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There are quite a few grandma remedies for hangovers, but unfortunately they usually do not really work.

Now, new research shows that there is a method that can achieve surprising results through heavy and controlled breathing.

This method can, it is estimated, save the lives of millions, as about 3 million people die each year from alcohol-related causes.

In many cases it is related to over-consumption of alcohol over time, but in many cases people simply do not get help in time.

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Once the ethanol (the most common and familiar alcohol) reaches the bloodstream, 90 percent is cleared by metabolism in the liver, an organ whose activity cannot be accelerated.

Aside from dialysis, all that can be done for people with high and dangerous blood alcohol levels is to treat the symptoms, for example, ensure they get enough oxygen to the brain.



The other 10 percent of alcohol cleansing occurs through the kidneys and lungs.

This is why breath tests reveal blood alcohol concentrations, and we can tell if someone drank just from the smell he emits from his mouth.

Dr. Joseph Fisher, an anesthesiologist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute in Canada and colleagues wondered if deeper and faster breathing might process alcohol more quickly.

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In a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, the team found that the idea could work, but some help was needed.

"You can not just get into a state of hyperventilation yourself, because in a minute or two you will faint," Fisher said in a statement.

Hyperventilation is a very fast and deep breathing that results in the removal of carbon dioxide.

Despite all the damage that carbon dioxide causes in the atmosphere, it plays a vital role in the bloodstream, and rapid breathing removes it along with ethanol.

Breathe the alcohol out of the body.

Woman breathing with a device (Photo: shutterstock)

Dr. Fisher and his team created a device called ClearMate that captures some of the oxygen and carbon dioxide that comes out and returns it to the body by inhalation, or in other words - increases the entry and exit of oxygen, thus maintaining optimal levels of gas in the bloodstream while alcohol is eliminated. An inhalation device is "a very basic low-tech device that can be manufactured anywhere in the world: there is no need for electronics, no computers or filters," Dr. Fisher explained, "it is almost incomprehensible why we did not try it decades ago."



The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the marketing of ClearMate as a way to treat carbon monoxide poisoning in emergency rooms in 2019, and in recent changes it appears to have a promise as a way to deal with alcohol poisoning as well.

So far the system has been tested with only five male subjects, with and without alcohol in their blood (a single vodka-based beverage was used as alcohol).

In an experiment with a ClearMate device of up to three hours, it was found that blood alcohol elimination rates increased by a factor of more than three.



This is an impressive result, despite the small sample size.

The next steps are to test the process works more extensively and make sure it can work with people with serious amounts of alcohol in the blood.

And of course, the question of whether the device will also work outside the scope of the study is still unanswered, as it is doubtful whether drunk people will be able to fill in the instructions, low tech or not low tech.

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