Endeavours to cure ‘an poit’ exist all over the world. Whether it’s Ancient Romans deep fried canaries, Ancient Greeks owl eggs (and sheep lungs) or Haitian-Voodoo’s method of finding the last bottle you drank from and sticking black pins into the cork… many others may have scientific merit.

Inspiration from reading a Times article recently and my own debilitating state post Mammy birthday celebrations, makes me soberly (ish) face up to why alcohol causes hangovers in the human body.

Headaches are caused by a lot of processes going on in your body whilst succumbing to the post pub affliction. Here are just a couple:
Alcohol suppresses the anti diuretic hormone in the brain. The ADH signals the kidneys to reabsorb water back into the body but without it the water goes to the bladder which is why there’s a constant flow of people to the pub toilet.

-Niamh (niamh dot buckley at lifescience dot ie)