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Over the last few weeks I have noticed advertisements for a new supplement called, Chaser®, claiming that it had the ability to prevent hangovers after a night of indulgence.
Now while I would stop short of referring to my lifestyle as hedonistic, it is safe to say that I indulge a fair bit, and pay the price for it. Naturally I was intrigued by the chance that Chaser® might be legitimate, but because of my inborn skepticism and the $24 dollar price tag for a bottle of 50 pills, I decided to test Chaser® out under the toughest of conditions.
The perfect event for this test presented itself in the form of a friends 21st birthday party. The theory was that after a night of reckless liver abuse I would wake up feeling refreshed without the pain, nausea or headache that I should have earned. (I'm not going to get into the moral and philosophical implications of this here.)
Now I am a historian, not a scientist, so my only real knowledge about the scientific method is that it is often attributed to Sir Francis "The Father of Deductive Reasoning" Bacon. It is clear to me now, that my "experiment" was in fact fatally flawed from the beginning.
To start with, I was already hung over when the experiment started. The party was on Sat, but since Friday was the last day of classes before break we had ourselves a beer pong tournament, (My team lost.)
This meant that the next evening when I started my drinking, I was in effect drinking away an already existing hangover.
As you may or may not know, drinking is a sure fire way to get rid of an already existing hangover, but it is no free lunch. Drinking away a hangover is more of a loan, one that you end up paying back with serious interest. This meant that the, Chaser®, not only had to prevent the hangover from Saturday nights event, but that it would also have to allow me to "default on the loan" from the hangover that I had already earned and was only putting off with more drinking.
The next problem with my experiment is one that I should have expected. The friend who turned 21 goes to school in NYC and they have a different time-line associated with a night of debauchery. Normally at school the bars close at 1-2 in the morning and then after that perhaps you go to a late night party, but you are still in bed by around 4 in most cases. This is not the case in NYC, sleeping only occurs once your body gives out. Now I don't know when (or how) I got to bed, but according to the rather sweet co-ed whose bed I woke up sleeping under, (next to a laundry basket and a case of Raman noodles,)I arrived well after the sun had risen.
When I woke up the next morning I was not hung over. This was not because of, Chaser®, but because after around 12 hours of drinking and 3 or so hours of sleep, I was still fall down drunk. The rest of the day as I sobered up I waited for a hangover to come on, it never did. It seemed like, Chaser®, was in fact the real deal, passing my test and insuring itself a place not only in my medicine cabinet, but also in my heart.
That was until this morning. When I woke up today it was as if Thor himself had come down from Valhalla, just to hammer inside of my skull (nice imagery.) So right now I have one of the worst hangovers of my life, and just about as much knowledge about the veracity of ,Chaser®, as I started with.
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