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Student Brooks Powell Develops Pill To Cure Hangover

Student Develops Pill To Cure Hangover
Lucy Sherriff

Thrive isn't just the name of Arianna Huffington's latest book, it's also a pill developed by a US student which claims to cure hangovers - before they've even started.

Princeton University student Brooks Powell says his pill is also a preventative for alcohol addiction.

"Thrive+.. protects your brain and body from the negative effects of alcohol while supplementing your body to breakdown alcohol’s toxic by-products," Powell explains.

According to Powell, Thrive contains ingredients which lessen the negative effects of drinking too much by decreasing alcohol's chemical change on your brain.

"By lessening the chemical change on your brain, you also lessen the addictive nature of alcohol," Powell continues. "Thrive+ also contains essential vitamins, minerals, and plant extracts that promote liver function, antioxidant activity, and a replenishment of the vitamins lost during drinking. These ingredients lessen the stress and damage alcohol can have on your body and brain."

The pill includes B, C and E vitamins - needed for energy and immune defence; milk thistle - a powerful liver antioxidant; prickly pear extract - which defends the cells of the brain and body and electrolytes - essential for hydration.


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Hair of the Dog(01 of05)
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Science has shown that your hangover peaks roughly 12 hours after you start drinking (around the time your BAC returns to zero). This might explain why cultures all over the world include a little hair of the dog that bit you in their hangover cures. Our favorite? The Bloody Mary, of course.
Pickle Juice(02 of05)
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It’s a well-known truism that pregnancy causes intense, left-field food cravings, and pickles are king among them. But think about it for a moment—the symptoms of early pregnancy (nausea, bloating and the feeling like your equilibrium is a bit off) sound an awful lot like a hangover.
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Greasy, Wonderful Diner Breakfast(03 of05)
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Late night. Early morning. It doesn’t matter. The moment when your heaping order of sizzling sausages, buttery waffles, glistening fried eggs, crispy potatoes and large mug of coffee sludge arrives, you lean your head back against the naugahyde booth, and feel your will to live return.
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A South Korean research team recently released a study citing, in short, that hangovers are caused by an inflammatory response in the body’s nervous system. South Korea also consumes the most hard liquor per capita in the world, so we understand the national interest in the topic of hangovers.
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Don't Drink(05 of05)
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The one thing every scientist can agree on is that the only 100 percent effective way to avoid a hangover is to avoid drinking in the first place.
Good luck with that plan.


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