By That is at least what they are claiming:
Booze, for all its magical wonder, still has big drawbacks: You can’t sober up quickly, and you often get a hangover. Now Korean researchers have found a way of tweaking booze to limit the fallout — without cutting its strength.
Doctors Kwang-il Kwon and Hye Gwang Jeong of Chungnam National University studied the properties of oxygenated alcohol – booze with oxygen bubbles added – which is a popular concoction in their country. In these drinks, oxygen is added the way carbonation is usually added to soda, and the scientists wanted to know if these oxygenated beverages affected people differently than non-oxygenated ones. The answer was a resounding yes.
They ran three experiments using 19.5% alcohol drinks, and measured the speed at which people’s blood alcohol dropped to 0.000%. In other words: How fast did they sober up? [io9]
You can read the rest of the results at the link.
10:16 am on March 5th, 2010 1
If you don't want a hangover, simply stay away from soju and drink wine or naturally fermented beer (you have to drink an awful lot of wine and home brewed beer to get a hangover).
7:14 pm on March 5th, 2010 2
I really don't know which is worse, a story like this or promoting views on global warming or eco-loons. They're all ridiculous, but flow like vomit from an oral orifice.
1:50 am on March 7th, 2010 3
Actually getting drunk without the hangover is possible (well mostly). Their the results of two different chemical process's inside your body. The getting drunk part is the ethanol hydride (alcohol) breaking down and stimulating various parts of your brain. The drunk part happens because the additives inside alcohol are actually poisonous (hops / fermented malt / fermented sugars) to your body and cause all sorts of havoc depending on what you drink (clear alcohols cause less problems then darker ones).
Now certain parts of the alcohol reaction can't be avoided, like the intense amount of H2O that is used, you must stay hydrated both during drinking, and prior to going to bed, else you end up with dehydration symptoms (headache, weakness, nausea). Also part of alcohol breaks down into vinegar then into other chemicals before its removed. If your drinking too much too fast it won't be able to clean out the vinegar fast enough and you end up with that crap in your blood for a short period of time, the damage it will cause your muscles will leave you with that (it hurts all over) feeling. You can mitigate that by not downing five shots of tequila back to back.
But I ~HIGHLY~ doubt adding free O2 to a drink will prevent all the above from happening. It'll just be released through gas's and won't actually be digested if its in a free state.
2:00 pm on March 7th, 2010 4
For those of us who don't have SCUBA gear readily at hand, there's a simpler way. Research has shown that eating, particularly fruit (preferably bananas, which are high in minerals) prior to and while drinking alcohol will reduce the affects of a hangover.
8:26 pm on March 7th, 2010 5
The last sentence above:
… and the following paragraph from the main article:
… are saying this is more that just a means to eliminate hangovers. It is saying this will speed up the removable of alcohol from your body. This oxygen rich juice will cause your liver to process alcohol more quickly.
Isn't there still a health risk when drinkers feel like they are recovering faster?
A liver that may have only had to process 3 bottles of soju on a weekend may now have to deal with 5 or 6 bottles of oxygenated soju. The oxygen may speed up the liver's work but doesn't decrease its workload.
Is it possible to overwork your liver?
9:18 pm on March 7th, 2010 6
Yes, those who are unable to metabolize alcohol well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction) are less likely to become alcoholic.