My name is Will DeFrees, and this is the Sunday Scariest Podcast.

You're here for the Sunday Blues.

This week we're going to talk about hangover myths, the newly coined term California sober,

and acceptance.

When I was a teenager, hangover simply didn't exist.

I could have been injecting long island ice teas into my arm through an IV, and I'd still

probably wake up with more energy than I'd wake up with these days.

It wasn't until a friend of mine started handing out Vitamin B12 tablets one night that I

realized hangovers were increasingly becoming something that I need to avoid at all costs.

I didn't know what the Vitamin B12 was supposed to do at the time,

but when I woke up with a throbbing headache and upset stomach, I knew that I probably

should have quadrupled my doses to actually feel the effects.

Once my hangovers got really bad at the age of 25, I decided to start taking

preventative measures.

Alka Seltzer before bed like Don Draper, sticking to only one type of liquor, and even going

as far to purchase an over-the-counter hangover cure that was definitely not a hangover cure.

What I realized was that there are a ton of myths out there that I was willing to believe,

but also the same amount of cures that I put that in quotes that truly do nothing.

And in that vein, I think it's time to look at some of the most prominent myths regarding

hangovers and see how they pan out in practice.

Myth number one, you can cure your hangover through exercise by sweating out the toxins.

Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately for those who don't want to do anything at all after

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