Tips for Drinking Without Hurting Your Body – For You to Keep
Tips for drinking without hurting your body—essential reading for men, and ladies, share this with your special someone.
Tips for drinking without harming your body! Boys, spread this around, girls, do it for him—guaranteeing your happiness.
One: Before Drinking
1. Before drinking, eat only until you're 70% full, and avoid drinking large amounts of water. (This is to leave room in your stomach for alcohol.)
2. Half an hour before drinking, drink a bottle of milk, preferably whole milk or sweetened milk, which can prevent alcoholic gastritis and dehydration. Drinking milk with sugar or honey not only promotes ethanol breakdown but also protects the gastric lining. Since dehydration causes salt loss, you can drink some lightly salted water or oral rehydration salts (the easiest method).
3. Avoid drinking on an empty stomach because alcohol absorbs quickly when you're hungry, making you more likely to get drunk. The best preventive measure is to consume fatty foods beforehand, such as fatty meats or trotters, or drink milk. This uses the slow-digesting properties of fats to protect your stomach and prevent alcohol from seeping through the stomach lining. This is the main secret to not getting drunk. Because doing so prolongs the time ethanol stays in your body.
Two: While Drinking
1. While drinking, avoid cold water, lemon water, or other stimulating drinks; otherwise, the milk you drank earlier will have been wasted. Don't drink carbonated beverages like cola or soda with alcohol, as these can accelerate the absorption of alcohol by the body.
2. When drinking spirits, don’t drink it all at once. Instead, take several sips. When drinking beer, wait for the foam to settle before drinking. Otherwise, at best, you'll feel bloated and uncomfortable, and at worst, you might vomit on the spot.
3. Drink yogurt between drinks—no need to explain, acid + alcohol = water.
4. Since alcohol harms the liver significantly, eat more leafy greens while drinking. The antioxidants and vitamins in them can protect the liver. You can also eat soy products, as their lecithin has a protective effect on the liver.
5. Drink slowly rather than quickly. Alcohol enters the bloodstream within five minutes after drinking, and blood alcohol concentration peaks between 30 to 120 minutes. Drinking too fast raises blood alcohol levels quickly, leading to intoxication. Drinking slowly gives your body more time to break down ethanol, reducing the amount produced and making it less likely to get drunk.
6. Eat while drinking. What’s the best food to eat while drinking to avoid getting drunk? Pig liver is ideal. Not only is it rich in nutrients, but pig liver also enhances the body's ability to metabolize alcohol. Regular drinkers often lose vitamin B in their bodies, and pig liver is one of the richest sources of vitamin B, making boiled or stir-fried pig liver an excellent side dish to go with alcohol.
Three: After Drinking
1. Do not drink vinegar or tea to sober up after drinking; these are misconceptions. Neither vinegar nor tea actually helps with sobriety.
2. After getting drunk, it’s best not to drink strong tea but can opt for weak tea. Tea polyphenols in tea have a certain liver-protecting effect, but the caffeine in strong tea can cause vasoconstriction, raising blood pressure, and worsening headaches. If someone drinks too much against their will, they can eat some fruit or drink some fruit juice afterward, as the acidic components in fruits and juices can neutralize alcohol. Many people skip meals after drinking, which is even more harmful. They should eat something easy to digest, like a bowl of noodles, which would be perfect.
3. Sweet desserts plus fruit. Eating sweets and fruits immediately after drinking can help maintain a sober state. As the saying goes, "Eat sweet persimmons after drinking, and the alcohol taste will disappear." This is true. Fruits like sweet persimmons contain a large amount of fructose, which can oxidize ethanol and accelerate its metabolic breakdown. Sweets have a similar effect.
4. After drinking, try to drink hot soup if possible, especially ginger-based fish soup, which has a particularly effective sobering effect.
5. If vomiting doesn’t stop after drinking, immediately drink a bottle of mineral water to avoid vomiting blood due to an empty stomach.
6. After vomiting, do not eat immediately, especially barbecued foods.
7. Before sleeping, remember to place a container by your bedside to prevent waking up suddenly needing to vomit and not making it to the bathroom in time.
8. The next day, if you feel stomach acid, take antacids like Gastrosed, and then drink water after the stomach acid eases.
9. If you experience stomach pain, take appropriate stomach medicine as needed, but avoid painkillers, as they have minimal effect on stomach pain.
10. For breakfast, choose warm drinks like soy milk or milk. If you still need to work, energy drinks like Pulse or Red Bull can help keep you alert and ensure you don’t miss work.
Boys, spread this around, girls, do it for him—guaranteeing your happiness.