Q I'm in my 40s with a habit of drinking with dinner. Every evening I have a shot or two of soju with greasy snacks. What foods and habits are especially bad for detox?
A Greasy snacks like fried food and pork belly, late-night eating, and mixing drinks like boilermakers especially increase the burden. Switching to lighter snacks and slowing your drinking pace helps.
Detailed Answer
High-fat, high-calorie snacks add to alcohol's calories and worsen fatty liver and belly fat. Late-night drinking and snacking keep the liver from resting while you sleep, and mixing drinks (boilermakers) sharply raises blood alcohol and worsens hangovers. Switching to lighter, vegetable- and protein-based snacks, drinking water alongside, and slowing your pace greatly reduce the burden.
Our Korean Medicine Clinic's Perspective
Dongjedang sees greasy, spicy snacks and late-night drinking as making the heat and damp burden left by alcohol pool even more heavily. When you reduce new accumulation with lighter snacks and an earlier finish, the clearing-out care follows along much better.
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