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Hangover and congeners

Posted by Lachenmeier on 03 Jan 2011 at 12:51 GMT

Congratulations to your excellent article providing a new possible mechanism for alcohol hangover. The theory about congeners causing hangover sounded never very convincing to me and own calculations have found that the congeners in alcoholic beverages are extremely unlikely to exceed toxicological thresholds(http://dx.doi.org/10.1016...).
Therefore, I think the acetate hypothesis is worthwhile for futher investigation.

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