How Are You Getting Over That Hangover?
November 16, 2009 by admin
Filed under Hangover Articles
Aside from the promise of warmer weather this weekend in the Windy City, the weekend before St. Patrick’s Day typically means dragging out the green tees, Kiss Me I’m Irish pins, and hunting for green beer and Irish grub in between drunken debauchery and parade partying. Chicago holds two popular parades, one downtown and one on the south side in Beverly, and this year both happen to fall on the same weekend. Talk about a double dose of drinking with an equally daunting risk of hangovers come Monday morning–and to only start again when the true St. Patty’s Day rolls in on Tuesday.
But did you ever think a drink typically sipped by athletes could help cure a hangover? I definitely didn’t…until I spoke to the founder of Zym the other day. Brian Koff, founder of the product local to Chicago but available to all online at gozym.com, taught me more than a thing or two about his product. And talk about making a sale for the greenest holiday of them all. Zym, with its catchy green tube and lemon-lime endurance formula, is just asking to tag along to all the St. Patrick’s Day festivities. It’s convenient to carry and its combination of electrolytes and B vitamins–remedies for a hangover according to health911.com–can be just what the body needs after heavy imbibing. Zym also boasts effervescense, low calories and a light flavor to add spark to that plain glass of water. Pop it into your Nalgene before you’re off for the day and you could whisk that headache away before you even arrive at the office (that’s what some claim at least). It might just save you and your Irish holiday.
But be sure to know that Zym isn’t just a hangover helper. Anyone can drink it to simply spice up your water without a ton of extra calories, or athletes can use it to break down lactic acid build-up and add electrolytes to a depleted system. I like to say the drink saved me from dying on a training run along the Lakefront last summer–water wasn’t cutting it but Zym revved my system enough to get me home.
This Fit-Inker hails from Chicago by way of Michigan and New York. I haven’t picked up an accent somewhere along the way but I do think I belong in the mountains rather than struggle through city life. When freelance writing and editing duties don’t have me glued to the computer, I’m tearing up the Windy City by foot, pedal or stroke, anything to stay active, moving and outdoors, with some quality gym time during winter hibernation. Name the gear and I probably have it stashed in a closet–bikes, kiteboard (so it’s not mine but my husband’s), tennis racquets, snowshoes, skis, wetsuit…. And Liz wants me to tell you that I did an Ironman…the profile picture is me at the finish line of the 2008 Ironman Wisconsin. You can reach me at katebongiovanni@gmail.com
How can I avoid getting a hangover?
November 5, 2009 by admin
Filed under Hangover Questions
I do believe I’ve had a little too much rum to drink tonight and I have to go to work soon! How do I not get a hangover? Is there any way I can get the alcohol out of my system more quickly?
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