New oxygenated alcohol will let workers sober up faster (Guru)

New oxygenated alcohol will let workers sober up faster

March 11, 2010

Guru is frankly tired of the seemingly weekly studies that prove that red wine/coffee/white wine/beer (delete as appropriate) is bad/good (delete as appropriate) for you, but latest research on booze from Korea was actually more eye catching than usual.

Boffins at Chungnam National University have discovered that infusing alcohol with oxygen allows drinkers to sober up more quickly.

Writing in the journal Alcohol: Clinical & Experimental Research, Professor Kwang-il Kwon, said: "The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage reduces plasma alcohol concentrations faster than a normal dissolved-oxygen alcohol beverage does.

"This could provide both clinical and real-life significance. The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage would allow individuals to become sober faster, and reduce the side effects without a significant difference in alcohol's effects."

But before Guru could proclaim "I'll drink to that", those killjoys at the Alcohol Health Alliance piped up, warning that "people might find they don't get as drunk and just take another drink".

And?

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