L-Cysteine Containing Vitamin Supplement Which Prevents or Alleviates Alcohol-related Hangover Symptoms: Nausea, Headache, Stress and Anxiety.
- 2020-08-18
- RCT
- Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) 55(6)
- C J Peter Eriksson
- Markus Metsälä
- Tommi Möykkynen
- Heikki Mäkisalo
- Olli Kärkkäinen
- Maria Palmén
- Joonas E Salminen
- Jussi Kauhanen
- PubMed: 32808029
- DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agaa082
- High evidence
L-cysteine prevents or alleviates hangover, nausea, headache, stress and anxiety. For hangover, nausea and headache the results were apparent with the L-cysteine dose of 1200 mg and for stress and anxiety already with the dose of 600 mg.
- Effect
- Beneficial
- Effect size
- Moderate
- Significant
- Yes
- Dose
- 600 mg and 1200 mg