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[quote=APAULT,258875]There is nothing you can do to reduce the effects of the alcohol itself, but you can perhaps reduce some of the symptoms such as headache or sickness.  So you certainly cannot do anything to help you get below the legal driving limit.

How much you can drink depends on several factors.  The most important is how well your body produces the enzymes which break down the alcohol.  If the alcohol is not broken down it all goes to the brain and you quickly become drunk.  It is a fact that many Asians do not produce this well (my guess is that alcohol has not been a big thing in most Asian societies so there has been no natural selection to achieve this).  Anyone who finds they get red faced or gets dizzy quickly after drinking alcohol should either drink none or very little.

Otherwise how much you can drink, ie how well you break down the alcohol, is dependent on body size, gender, and drinking experience.  A bigger body handles a little more, and it seems a thin muscular person metabolises better than a fat person.  Most definitely, women metabolise much slower than men and should drink much less.  Finally, the experienced drinker's liver is able to metabolise alcohol quicker UNTIL the liver becomes damaged when it loses its ability.

If you eat food before or while drinking you can slow the speed at which the alcohol is absorbed - a bit! What you should do for a hangover I have forgotton: I am a regualr drinker but I learnt that hangovers are not fun, so I very rarely drink heavily at one time.  But I do remember in Britain I was brought up on the idea of 'the hair of the dog'....that is you have some more of what bit you - a small drink of alcohol.  I can't remember if it worked or not![/quote]

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