Hangover Cures
We had this on sale here. From The New Yorker : A few months ago, while watching Instagram stories, I came across a provocative advertisement. A man with scruffy brown hair said, “What if I told you alcohol is not actually bad for you?” He explained that our livers convert alcohol into acetaldehyde, a toxic molecule that he described as a main cause of hangovers. His brief chemistry lesson, which used glass beakers filled with colorful liquids as props, was accompanied by a link to a product: a supplement that promised to neutralize acetaldehyde more quickly than my body could on its own. Eliminating acetaldehyde, the ad claimed, would help conquer hangovers. One reviewer of the supplement said that she’d drunk more than five glasses of wine and felt fine the next day. I usually have a strong aversion to the science-y veneer of supplement marketing, yet I stuck with the ad to the end...