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It’s high-octane hangover insurance.
Hangover cures are often seen as snake oil, ranging from coffee to, well, hair of the dog.
However, UK-based TV doctor Zoe Williams has devised a snack that’s scientifically proven to sponge up the suds after a bender: a bacon, egg and avocado sandwich.
Dreamed up in collaboration with UK bakery Warburton’s, this counterintuitive-seeming nosh consists of the perfect combo of nutrients to restore the balance of salts, sugars and proteins lost during boozing, the Daily Mail reported.
The hangover nausea occurs because alcohol makes the liver less effective at regulating blood sugar levels, triggering hormones that make us feel queasy,
This sandwich’s restorative powers start with its bread, which should be half whole meal and half white, according to Williams, a general practitioner.
While wheat bread is generally healthier, the strong-tasting grains can often trigger nausea, so cutting it with white bread makes it go down easier — like a carb-laden trampoline to soften to a hangover’s landing.
“With a half and half bread, like Waburtons, you still get protein and the fiber, which offers a combination of both immediate energy and the slow-releasing type,” said Williams.
Protein contains an essential amino acid called lysine that accelerates the breakdown of alcohol in the liver, she explained.
Why throw in bacon, which, like alcohol, has been linked to bowel cancer and other issues?
Williams explained that it helps replenish stores of sodium, one of the main electrolytes that are shed during drinking. The other is potassium, which the sandwich has in spades.
“It can help that kind of foggy brain that you have with the hangover,” said Williams. “Some experts say even just the smell of bacon can technically start to help the brain recuperate.”
Eggs are the “hero” when it comes to beating the ghost of binge-mas past, per Williams.
“It doesn’t matter how you cook it. Eggs are full of nutrients that are specifically good for curing a hangover,” she said.
Those building blocks include protein, vitamins A and D, and vitamin B12, which is depleted during drinking.
Throw in avocado’s energy-boosting healthy fats, as well as vitamins and minerals such as potassium — which is also sapped during hangovers — and you’ve got the perfect triple threat for chasing the booze away.
Eating the sandwich would be better before or while getting on the sauce is optimal, per Williams. That’s because doing so slows the absorption of alcohol into the bloodstream.
She recommended that revelers “stop drinking at least two hours before going to bed and switch to drinking water.”
