Tipplers, rejoice: A scientist conducting research at Philly’s Thomas Jefferson University has discovered a cure for the hangover! Are you ready to hear what it is? It doesn’t require ingesting any holistic medicines, coconut water, pickle juice, or wrapping your sore, throbbing cranium in cabbage leaves. Are you really ready to finally find out how to stifle that procession of jackhammers battering the insides of your brain after a night of pounding Four Loko-Jager-bombs?! Well: The mystery cure is … a cup of coffee and an aspirin. Oh. According to the study, the caffeine and anti-inflammatory ingredients in the coffee-aspirin combo react against the chemical compounds in ethanol. The study was done in rats, but even as we post this, we imagine Starbucks is scurrying to add painkillers to the array of impulse items it stocks at its checkouts. [Telegraph UK via NBC Philadelphia]
