L-Cysteine Containing Vitamin Supplement Which Prevents or Alleviates Alcohol-related Hangover Symptoms: Nausea, Headache, Stress and Anxiety.

What Was Tested

The paper reports a study of Copper (Supplement), published as a randomized controlled trial.

Alcohol-related hangover symptoms: nausea, headache, stress and anxiety cause globally considerable amount of health problems and economic losses.

Many of these harmful effects are produced by alcohol and its metabolite, acetaldehyde, which also is a common ingredient in alcohol beverages.

The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of the amino acid L-cysteine on the alcohol/acetaldehyde related aftereffects.

Who Took Part

PubMed indexes the participants as young adults, adults and middle-aged adults, men only.

Voluntary healthy participants were recruited through advertisements.

Volunteers had to have experience of hangover and/or headache.

How the Study Was Run

The researchers set it up as a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study.

Because people in this Copper (Supplement) study were split into groups at random, differences between the groups are less likely to reflect who happened to join each one.

Blinding on both sides kept the participants and researchers unaware of who received Copper (Supplement).

Some participants received a placebo instead of Copper (Supplement), giving a reference point.

The hangover study was randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled.

Nineteen males randomly swallowed placebo and L-cysteine tablets.

What Was Measured

PubMed files the paper under topics including Alcoholic Intoxication, Anxiety, Cysteine, Dietary Supplements, Headache, Nausea and Vitamins.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study of Copper (Supplement).

Results are reported in around 4 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.

The publication is from 2020 (Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)), a journal based in England.

More context: the Copper (Supplement) compound page, all human trials.