Drink up, your hangover cure is a click away
What it is: If you’re one of the teeming millions who occasionally overindulge – and wake up the next morning paying dearly for it – you’ll appreciate www.HangoverReview.com, an informational Web site that compares dozens of the various hangover remedies currently on the market.
What it’s all about: Products purportedly designed to cure or prevent the morning-after wobblies have been on the market for nearly a decade, but in the past few years, there has been an explosion in the availability of hangover remedies. Magazine ads, Web sites and television commercials tout the headache and nausea-busting properties of pills with names such as Chaser, RU-21, Drinkers Champion and – our favorite of the lot – Uncle Rummie’s Hangover Helper. But do they work? And if so, how? These are the questions that HangoverReview.com sets out to answer, with reviews of 35 over-the-counter remedies, a handy comparative price chart of all the products and a list of tips to prevent hangovers without any fancy-shmancy herbal concoctions (think aspirin and lots of water).
Why we like it: In recent years, a decrease in the intensity of my New Year’s Eve revelry has meant fewer New Year’s Days praying for a quick and merciful death and a reduction in the number of quickly broken resolutions to never again touch the hard stuff. Unfortunately, my love of heavily tannic red wines and my increasing sensitivity to the congeners and impurities in alcoholic beverages means that even drinking in moderation is no guarantee of a consequence-free day after. And so I’ll admit that more than one of these “hangover cure” products has made its way into my medicine cabinet in the past – usually bringing little relief to either my depleted wallet or my angry, wine-soaked tummy.
Thus it’s a relief to turn to HangoverReview.com to do all the heavy lifting, as it were, in evaluating the science (or lack thereof) behind the various formulations fighting for a share of my bar tab. The reviews are written in easy-to-understand English with no medical jargon or pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo to further confuse an already drink-addled brain, and the site’s authors make no bones about which remedies they feel are worth a try and which are a waste of money. And for those of you who are still nursing the results of ringing out 2004 a bit too vigorously, plan ahead next time: According to HangoverReview.com, the top-rated hangover remedy is Sob’r K Hangover Stopper, made of 100 percent pharmaceutical grade activated carbon and available online for less than 20 cents per pill.