Eggs-Over-Hangover: You May Want to Eat Breakfast After Partying

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It’s 1 am.  You and your friends are drunk and watching videos of kittens stuck in paper bags on YouTube.  It’s late, but there is no denying the egalitarian decision that the best possible option for everyone is a three-egg Denver Omelet with sausage links a-la-carte. Your compulsion to hit up the 24-hour diner down the street may be more complex than your unrelenting desire for pork sausage links, or the fact the wait staff there becomes dramatically more attractive when inebriated, but instead your subconscious informing you of your body craves the amino acid, Cysteine.

Cysteine is a non-essential amino acid, which can be created naturally in the human body, but is also found in such high protein diner delectables as sausage, lunch meat, chicken, eggs, turkey, cottage cheese, and yogurt. While you may feel like your corroding your arteries, feel rest assured you are protecting your liver.  Though cysteine is produced naturally in your body, after a night of overindulgence you are guaranteed to have over run your body’s natural supply of this toxin blocker.  When your body metabolizes alcohol, it produces the organic chemical compound of acetaldehyde, responsible for the more annoying effects of alcohol such as hangovers and liver damage.

Cysteine counteracts the toxic acetaldehyde by furthering its metabolism to form acetic acid, a relatively harmless compound found in vinegar.  Maybe not the best option for calorie counters, or Gremlins, but a smart way to keep your body equipped to battle the remainder of the evening and the impending daylight hours.  No need to worry about your Grand Slam killing your buzz, as cysteine has no relation to the direct effects of drunkenness; you can protect your good time at night, and your good morning with your late-night super snacking.

If you didn’t think ahead and hit up Denny’s on your drunken escapades, you may want to fry up some eggs and sausage in the morning to tackle the remainder of the alcohol, yet to be metabolized, plaguing your appreciation for sunlight.  Good news for Vegans is cysteine is not only located in animal products, but also granola, oats, broccoli, red peppers, brussels sprouts, onions, and garlic, maybe not popular items on the Denny’s menu, but most likely foods you have stored in your refrigerator or kitchen cupboards.

So, bottoms up with a side of eggs, and good morning tomorrow.