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| | | Science At Work - Introducing Low-Hangover Alcohol | | |
| | Submitted by: | funguy | | Submitted on: | Mar 07, 2010 at 11:58 AM | | Story Category: | | | Source: | io9.com |
| | io9.com - Korean researchers have studied the way alcohol affects the human body and have used their studies to create an alcoholic beverage that lets you sober up more quickly and gives you less of a hangover.
Kwang-il Kwon and Hye Gwang Jeong of Chungnam National University studied the properties of oxygenated alcohol, drinks that have oxygen added similar to the way soda is carbonated. They found that people that drank the oxygenated alcohol sobered up 20 to 30 minutes faster than those that drank regular drinks. In addition, people who drank oxygenated booze over the course of an evening had less severe and fewer hangovers than people who drank the non-oxygenated drinks.
There is actually a scientific reason for the reduced hangover effects of oxygenated alcohol. Ethanol must be oxidized to water and carbon dioxide in order for your body to process it. The enzymes that process the ethanol need oxygen to break it down and the oxygen in the alcohol is believed to aid the process.
The Korean firm Sunyang Co sells a fortified wine called soju that they have oxygenated and market as O2Lin
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