MEXICO.- Friday is just around the corner, and we had a week full of work and the only thing we want to do is lay back and have some beers (well, a lot of us do). Without noticing it, as soon as we are out of the bar, we stop on the next "taco stand" to weigh down all those drinks. Next day, we wake up hungover and unable to work, feeling very guilty due to everything we ate. We wonder, why is that?

Well, according to the Mexican state of Sonora's State Health Ministry, by consuming alcohol, we increaseour insulin production, to something that's called "hyper-insulin", which makes us eat more than usual so that our bodies are able to control it.

Through a newsletter, they indicated that this also has an impact regarding the reduction of our work performance, given that our visual-spacial abilities and our cognitive capability are lower. Experts added that this is due to the fact that we suffer from symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, blurry vision, to name a few characteristic ailments of being hungover (didn't need a study to know this, of course).

Headaches are the result of having dilated blood vessels and a reduction of glucose in our blood, and this effect produces vasodilating substances in our organism, such as thiamine and histamine, as well as dehydration.

Experts recommend that if we don't want suffer from a hangover, we shouldn't drink or at least, do it with moderation. It's very important to remember that alcohol should never be mixed with water, given that it speeds up the absorption process making alcohol run through our blood faster.

Furthermore, we shouldn't mix alcoholic beverages with anything that contains caffeine, for this substance will null the relaxing effects of alcohol, making us drink more without us noticing.

Mixing alcohol with caffeine is fatal for our health, pointed out the state's agency, for it may result in a severe intoxication which could lead to unconsciousness and in some cases death.

With information from Notimex.

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