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Clinical study: hangover cures & treatment

The clinic studied its own results.

By Jason Burke, M.D. and Darien Cohen, Ph.D. An in-house retrospective analysis of “a randomized set of 1,000+ patients”, shown here with its stated limitations.

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01 — Reported results

Score improvements after IV treatment.

Patients self-scored overall hangover, nausea and headache on a 0–10 scale, before and after treatment.

Overall hangover score97.94%
Nausea96.06%
Headache96.48%
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These are the clinic’s own figures: an in-house retrospective study of a randomized set of 1,000+ patients, by Jason Burke, M.D. and Darien Cohen, Ph.D. It is not a peer-reviewed publication. Its stated limitations: no negative control, and no control for the amount or type of alcohol consumed.

02 — How it was run

Methods, as published.

  1. Blood pressure and heart rate measured before and after IV treatment
  2. Patients self-scored overall hangover, nausea and headache on a 0–10 scale
  3. Drawn from “a randomized set of 1,000+ patients”
  4. Analysis performed by Dr. Cohen “and an independent statistician”
  5. Significance threshold: p < 0.05

03 — What it reports

Findings, in the authors’ words.

  1. About 80% of patients arrived at a self-score of 10, “epic”, and dropped to 3 or less within 45 minutes
  2. The effect was “most consistent and pronounced in treatment 2 (Salvation)”
  3. Mean systolic blood pressure and heart rate were lower after treatment
  4. Clinic-wide, the practice reports tens of thousands treated, with 99% reporting “a significant reduction in their hangover symptoms”
“The first report of the statistically relevant reduction of hangover symptoms.”The authors, on their study

04 — Exhibits

The study’s own figure and tables.

Reproduced from the clinic’s study page.

Study figure: histograms of heart rate (A) and systolic blood pressure (B) before and after treatment, 1,360 patients
Figure: heart rate (A) and systolic blood pressure (B), before and after treatment
Study table from the clinic's study page
Table 1
Study table from the clinic's study page
Table 2
Study table from the clinic's study page
Table 3

05 — Protocols recorded in the study

Four treatments, one retired.

A young man in a black T-shirt reclines against a pillow in a treatment chair, an IV line in his forearm
A patient reclined for treatment