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Staying Hydrated at a Music Festival (Burning Man)

By Michael McAdams

This is a repost from LyteShow, used here with their permission. By Mike McAdams   It’s late afternoon and you can’t drag yourself out of...

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Top 3 Healthiest Types of Liquor

By James Madeiros

By James Madeiros   It’s hard to say that liquor can be healthy with a straight face, but when comparing liquors against one another it’s...

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How Does Beer Get Skunked?

By James Madeiros

By James Madeiros   How does beer get skunked: a question that implies people actually let this happen, all of whom should be very ashamed...

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How Does Alcohol Affect Blood Pressure?

By James Madeiros

By James Madeiros   Alcohol’s effects on blood pressure may seem intuitive: too much alcohol is bad, and high blood pressure is bad … so...

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How Alcohol Bitters Are Made

By James Madeiros

By James Madeiros   Bitters, once the sole province of masterful barroom mixologists, are returning to the spotlight thanks to the growing popularity of Prohibition...

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Breathable Booze

By James Madeiros

By James Madeiros   As if drinking alcohol wasn’t easy enough – welcome to the age of breathable booze. Breathing inhalable liquor is nothing new...

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How Does Alcohol Move Through The Body?

By James Madeiros

By James Madeiros   Most of us have little concern for what happens to alcohol once we swallow it, particularly when it tastes good, but...

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How & Why Electrolytes Help a Hangover

By James Madeiros

By James Madeiros   Electrolytes! Everybody wants more electrolytes, even though we don’t know what they do or where to find them. The good news...

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Differences between Cysteine and N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC)

By James Madeiros

By James Madeiros   Alcohol consumption is all about chemistry – once you get past all the fun and flavor, that is. Most of the...

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