If our commenters are to be believed, a bit of the wacky terbaccy is a sure-fire cure for alcoholic excess. If you hold truck with what Dole's publicists have to say, bananas are a magic bullet for relieving booze-induced misery.
The latter assert that 'nanners battle the after-effects of alcohol consumption. Quoth Dole.com, "Eat bananas if you've overindulged. Scientific evidence suggests hydration, vitamins B6 and C may make hangovers more bearable." An in-depth breakdown goes on to expand upon the fruit's ability to help the over-hung to, "Rehydrate...neutralize free radicals...re-balance...recover."
That's appealing and all, but unless you're in the habit of having a fresh bunch stashed at all times, no way are you slipping on pants and some manner of footwear for anything less than a greasy cheeseburger or the dog that done bit ya the night before.
As we'd mentioned, the kids at the back of the bus tout the benefits of smoking the suffer away.
"A fat doobie works. Just like with cancer patients. So I've heard.
I've noticed hair of the dog just keeps me drinking all day, which makes the NEXT day even worse. I'd rather have a high take care of my pains until noon, when it wears off." - Jdizzle McHammerpants
"Bong rips... no question" - CrazyH
"Nothing is more effective than a little cannabis. I ran out last week (for a big US city, Cleveland sucks) and ended up drinking too much on Saturday and Sunday was BRUTAL without my fave cure. I even tried resorting to the old resin-scraping humiliation." - CM
"Nothin like a good wake n bake and Funyuns to cure the worst of hangovers." - mr nice guy
But if you (like us) are not one to channel your inner Willie Nelson, don't worry - our readers have plenty of other homespun hangover remedies on tap. In addition to 40 mentions of Gatorade, 18 of Ibuprofen, eight of Advil (which is branded Ibuprofen), 16 of coconut water, 14 of aspirin, 13 of Bloody Marys (we opt for the Smokey Maria, ourselves), and multiple citations of greasy burgers, burritos and big ol' breakfasts, our commenters swear by massive quaffs of water and caffeine, plenty of shuteye and some more ambitious solutions we're highlighting below.
We can neither confirm nor deny the efficacy of any of these methods. Medical science hasn't reached a consensus as to the root cause (except, you know, the drinking) and Dr. Sharon Horesh Bergquist, assistant professor in the department of medicine at Emory University told CNN Health, "There probably won't be a known effective treatment until we understand the physiology better."
Take these suggestions with a grain of salt - and possibly a quart or two of pickle juice (which was suggested eight times).
Soup is good food
"PHO! this Vietnamese soup is under $10 & is the best cure of a hangover if you can get to the restaurant. I LIVE BY IT! yummy! $5.99 & you can get a bowl of your choice of PHO." - TK
"Perhaps the most tried and true in Mexico is worth mentioning: a rich broth with some hot chili, especially if the broth includes menudo, pig's foot, salt, onions and jalapeños. Known as the 'breakfast of champions' it really works." - Trumble
"I've never had a hangover that a bottle of Gatorade and a bowl of french onion soup couldn't cure." - Drunky McScotch
"Ah Ramen. I agree, it is a magical food." - Evil Grin
Crazy concoctions
"The most effective hangover 'remedy' in my experience has been a concoction I make by filling one glass with :
1 part part apple juice or orange juice
1/2 teaspoon table salt (stir well into juice) and then
Fill glass with cold water
Each time I've tried this remedy it's worked!" - Fatherfigure
"Blue green algae (spirulina), naicin (b3), & ginseng...then meditate on the luminous void. Have an enlightening day!" - ZenDog
"Pickle juice with V8 and Clamato works great for me." - Bryan Somerville
"Pedialyte popsicles. Not kidding. They are awesome." - Evil Grin
"Apple Cider Vinegar and two glasses of water before and after you get totally tanked." - YourMomsFace
"Mass quantities of pickle juice and those sugary orange slice candies. Think it worked cause it all fermented in my belly." - Amunaka
Hair of the dog - Lone Star style
"When I was drinking the best hangover cure was what someone told me was called a 'Texas Redeye' – large glass, fill with 2/3 beer, top off with tomato juice and a dash of salt. Yes, it tastes wonderful first thing in the morning and always kept me functioning." - Ex-Drinker
I may or may not be a doctor, but I play one on the internet
"Physicians cure – 16 ounces of water BEFORE you go to bed, with 2 – 4 ibuprofen. If you wake up with a hangover, still drink 16 ounces of water, 8 ounces of tomato juice (or V8), take 2 ibuprofen, and 2 – 4 Maalox/Mylanta. I gave this to a colleague who was getting ready to go home early in the day secondary to a hangover – one hour later, he was back to work – feeling O.K." - Deedee
Cold comfort
"To get rid of the horrible headache, eat vanilla ice cream fast enough to get brain freeze. It literally freezes away that headache and the vanilla is actually soothing for the stomach. It works for the headache every time. As to any other symptoms, only sleep will cure them." - Jade
Got a favorite alcohol cure-all you'd care to share? Pour out your heart below.
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My remedy is BC Powder and Gatorade or a Hair of the Dog. Happy NYE everyone!
Oh, and raw sauerkraut. On Monday mornings, they gave sauerkraut juice to the workers on the golden gate bridge to rid them of their hangovers ( to improve workplace safety).
Water, or better yet, Knudsen recharge.
Orgasm
Sliver of Xanax
Cannabis
Sleeping through it.
People keep mentioning ibuprofen or aspirin...while that may provide temporary relief it is not easy on the stomach and in some cases will cause bleeding of the stomach lining...not to mention that ibuprofen is terrible for your liver when sober and probably much worse after alcohol induced liver irritation.
A couple bong hits, some fruit/tomato juice and a nap.
3-2-1 method; After a long night of boozing, drink 3 glasses of water – take 2 Ibuprofen – take 1 Zantac, Pepcid, or other acid reducer. I also find that taking a vitamin B-complex and a multivitamin with potassium and magnesium in it also prevents the morning-after nasties.
I like to turn to a greasy meal, a vitamin drink, and a uninterrupted nap. A big plate of Greek food is the best: Gyro meat, tzahiki, a spanikopita, a dolmathes (or several), and a pita to put you to sleep.
But you should have a glass of water, 2 Ibuprofen and a vitamin before bed.
I like that, except I go for Waffle House instead of greek!
1-2 multivitamins (megaman/woman or the like), 2 migraine advils and as much water as you can stand, and a good night sleep. Fool Proof. Or just get drunk in the morning. that helps
Put a cinnamon bun on a tractor. I was skeptical and first and then WOW!
You just need to drink lots of water to hydrate and then get moving- run, walk, work out, etc. Do anything to sweat it out!
bojangles chicken and biscuits
I've fortunately never had a hangover but then, I know my limit. I can't handle a much alcohol. Four drinks is my limit.
Go running! Works every time.
Only drinking beer works for me...as long as I'm not drinking big barleywines, or Imperial Stouts I am usually way too full before I ever get drunk enough to be hungover.
Try Rebootizer (www.rebootizer.com). It is an all natural detox shake and is the best cure for a night of a little too much fun.
100% FOOLPROOF: The key is preventative medicine. If you already have the hangover, it's too late. BEFORE you go to sleep for the night, take two multivitamins, two Advil (or whatever headache medicine you prefer), and wash them down with as much water as you can hold. The idea is to give your body what it needs to metabolize the alcohol while you sleep. I promise you won't wake with a hangover. Went through college and extemely overindulgent 20's without a single hangover. TRY IT.
Cold fried chicken and 7-Up work's for me.
Shot glass filled with half pickle juice and half jameson. Then some more pickle juice mixed with whatever you'd like or straight up. Always keep jars of it in the fridge.
Berocca
pho and bong hits
When you're out drinking, stick with one type of alcohol. Beer, white wine, red wine, whitle liquor, brown liquor–don't mix them! I get less of a hangover if I don't mix sodas containing sugar with the alcohol. So use either diet sodas as mixers or use tonic or soda water.
a tall glass of watered down ice tea, Its got plenty of water to help with the dehydration and a small amount of caffeine to constrict the blood vessels in your head to make the headache go away.
Go to Hawaii, find Sarah Marshall and ask her to pee in a cup for you. Then, fly off to London, find Aldous Snow and ask him to pee in a cup for you. Then, fly off to Los Angeles and find ANY fat Jewish kid and ask him to pee in the very same cup. You now have the urine of three different people that you had to travel the globe to get. Flush down the toilet and never do this again. Why? by now, you should realize that your hang-over was gone a long time ago.
Eat food, drink plenty of water and 2-3 multi vitamins ...
Best cure is not to drink booze.. When people drink too much Alcohol someone usually gets hurt.. When your drunk , chances are you will do something stupid.. Nothing funny about that.. Drink responsibly.. drink water or green tea!
You're boring.
What's the fun in never doing anything stupid? I rely on doing something stupid every once in a while just to make sure I'm still alive.
best cure is to stay young. no big deal in high school or college, but hangovers get much worse as the years go by . . . .
5 mile run. Sucks, hangover gone when your finished though.
Dont ever stop drinking. No hangover. Simple...
Genius!
A peanut butter sandwich, a bottle of Gatorade, and 2 Excedrin migraine, before bed if you're able, and the hangover doesn't even occur.
The caffine in the Excedrin helps to keep your metabolism revved while you are sleeping. It really does help your liver to process more alcohol. Just asprin and a No-Doze will work even better. Tylenol competes for processing time in your liver. As a result, it slows down the rate at which alcohol is metabolizes.
grrr. no spell check. no coffee in the office either. :-( ^metabolized
Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is no bueno for us alkies.
Almost alcohol drink the next morning , not needing to be "hair of the dog", has been tested over many years personally, and with others. The old school explanation was that your body reacts to the alcohol as a poison, and works to combat it, but can only handle so much before shutting down. Then the hangover kicks in, because their's still untreated alcohol in your system. Having another alcohol drink triggers your body to begin combating the perceived poison again, and hangover dissipates quickly. This was tested occasionally when access to herb wasn't available, and still worked.
Your mileage may very, but it worked for us.
Almost any* alcohol < edit
Better beer, wine, or booze do make a difference. Water before bed and Aspirin or Tylenol PM are good if you're nervous about early AM work. Stomach woes can be dealt with using Papaya, Acidophilus, Pro-Biotics, or Apple Cider Vinegar. Morning food ANYTHING WITH LOTS OF BACON and a Coke, plus Bananas. No joke though, best all time cure if you have access to it, pure Oxygen through a 100% rebreather mask, so cops, ambulance, firefighters, and pilots only basically, but it does a miraculuos job in just a couple of puffs.
The more I look at this pic, the more I dig this chick.
Hey, I rhymed!
over a liter of water before you go to bed with a package of goldfish and then a bottle of gatorade in the morning. Always gets me better
Pedialyte, 2 advil, 3 cups of water, pure O2 and youre ready to do it again.
I definitely agree with pho. Maybe it's the salt (which induces you to drink more water? hmmm...), maybe it's the herbs (culantro, Thai basil, star anise, black pepper among others) but it's definitely become a comfort food in my book. My BF and I have noticed, though, that after eating it sober, we get what we call a "pho high." It's just so good we get dizzy eating it. Definitely worth the short trip down to Little Saigon to get some at Pho 88 (check it out if you're in Orlando).
Other than that – lots of water, ibuprofen. Ginger tea does wonders for a jumpy stomach and helps rehydrate, too. Surprisingly, moaning out loud seems to help. It's kind of like venting about something that makes you angry.
LOL
A big glass of chocolate milk with a couple advil makes for a smooth start to the day. The milk settles the stomach and the sugar resets the body.
I remember when CNN used to have NEWS articles.
What a waste of space, glorifying drug use, way to go CNN.
Are you really telling your subscribers to smoke pot as a relief for hangover???? I don't think that's the kind of article we need on a forum like CNN.
You need to smoke some and shut up.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what we need on CNN! Why sugar coat the truth when a perfectly safe cure is out there?
water plus ibuprofen before you go to sleep and then Pepsi/Coke and Doritos in the morning. Give it a try.
If you'd had the presence of mind to prepare, you weren't drunk enough for a bad hangover.
Ha! Totally true.
Honeydew melon, pain killer, (Ibu, Tylen, or tokable) Dry toast. All together.
Try to remember to drink a glass of water with each drink if you are going to drink a lot. Drink lots of water before you go to bed. This helps quite a bit. More sleep is better.
Hair of the dog does work if you don't have to function too much. Vodka with (pick one) cranberry/oj/grapefruit juice, bloody marys, vodka with Red Bull and Mikes Cranberry lemonade helps. Mimosas (oj and champagne) are good if you're feeling fancy. Food helps a lot as well. A large breakfast meal works for me with lots of hot sauce/hot salsa on the side.
Hook yourself up to a saline drip...works miracles..
I college, I had two roommates. One drove a Bugweiser truck – He delivered kegs to all the bars. The other vas a Vet. school student. We had a perpetual supply of slightly-out-of-date beer. We also had three nails on the living room wall where we would hand our bags of Lactated Ringer's every morning after a herd night of drinking. I can't believe we survived those days.....
No comparison, marijuana is the answer here.
haha your polish
My heads not the one going up and down for the apples-Bobby!
Two B12, two ibuprofen and a glass of water before bed. You: 1, hangover: zero
I can haz Hamzburglar?
That would be against my Polish Faith.
A nice stiff bloody mary works well i hear
Mary won't be stiff till Weds. What do I do till then?
Drive?
Out of the question. I am in seclusion with a mad Cocker Spaniel as my Bodyguard. Kinda sounds like PairAzz don't it?
Or RabbeyeDick or Coach Mike
You might consider wearing a cup in your Liberace costume and also for the young one. Truth-fight the urge of Hate and vote your conscience on Tuesday. Weds. will be a bright and shiny day. Talk 2 ya both next week.
McDonald's Cheeseburgers (2), medium order of french fries, and a LARGE coke.
Hey! My comment made a blog mention.
*WIN*
Change the lousy photo heading this blog item.
its a nice photo, what would you recommend?
A beard and moustache like the SF Giants relief pitcher?
Michele's just jealous she can't pull off them Camo-panties quite the same as this hot chick is.
I just KNEW I'd get ridicule for my post. How predictable.... the photo still sucks.....as does the subjet for that matter....
subject... I know, I kant tipe eethr
Was hoping you'd try and prove me wrong with the photo. =(
What I've done with friends (and even had one who refused, as a "control") was recommend the following: fill a glass no more than half full of your favorite 2-liter bottle of lemonade. Fill the rest with lukewarm water, not hot or cold. If you can, get 2 glasses down before bed. The lemonade is diluted enough that it gives flavor to cut out any sort of aftertastes, but the acids aren't strong enough to upset the stomach further. Water, of course, is required for the dehydration result of the body processing the alcohol. The reason i recommend warm is so that the body isn't spending time trying to heat up or cool down the water before absorbing it. We were out at a New Year's Eve party and two friends got completely blitzed. One did what I said, the other didn't. The one who did had no hangover effect whatsoever the next day. The one who didn't wasn't able to function beyond using the phone (and complain how hungover he was) until the middle of the afternoon.
@Bob
Not true bob, I only drink beer on occasions and i've noticed that when finishing three utah beers (3.2%) i usually wake up with a hangover.
Jeez lightweight, you must have been funneling the 3 beers right before bed!
Drink lots of water, then physical activity to the point of sweating.
just 24oz of used toilet water will do the trick
toilet bowl water....love it!
A tall glass of Sprite and orange juice mixed, no ice. It settles the stomach, perks you up, and is delicious. Maybe add a bit of vodka for you 'hair of the dog' people. Biscuits and sausage gravy is the food of the gods when you're hungover. I try to make it a rule that my last drink of the night is water. I also find it very helpful to drink water (or the sprite/juice cocktail) every other glass when trying to keep up with someone whos drinking abilities far surpass my own.
Don't drink to excess. Simple. Foolproof. Works every time. Duh!
you suck
I get a large McDonald's chocolate shake and go through the carwash twice. That's not a euphamism, I literally do that.
*euphemism
I used to have a buddy —a cat named Dave— that swore the best hangover cure was to eat one of those big, greasy, microwaved 7-11 burritos just before going to sleep. You either wake up sick as a dog (which you'd most likely be anyway), or you wake up fresh as a daisy and ready to get smashed all over again.
I tried it once, but didn't complete the "Dave's Great Hangover Cure". Instead, I woke up next to a dumpster with a half-eaten burrito in my hands and a headache like a mule had stomped on my melon.
A baked potato helps with a quesy stomach after drinking. Doesn't help with the headache though.
One bottle of water, 2 ibuprofen and a B12 before you go to bed....works every time!
A big bowl of menudo!!
Drink a shake before going out to drink? Listen here milk breath, every good drinker knows that a 50 cent hamburger can simply ruin a $50 drunk. The booze dehydrates you and makes your stomach and body chemistry acidic. The high-strength antacid returns the body chemistry to a more alkaline state. Copius amounts of fresh water also helps. Copius.
THINK SCIENCE: The body needs more glutathione to quelch the massive amount of free radicals and metabolites making you feel horrible. The best way to make hangovers a thing of the past is to boost your amino acid, CYSTEINE. You can take NAC from any health food store, but I prefer to drink a soothing milkshake of Action Whey (make sure it's a non-denatured whey protein for the cysteine). It helps sooth the stomach/digestion issues (mix it with milk) and it boosts the glutathione your body is needing so badly. Hope that helps:)
I forgot to mention you should also drink a shake BEFORE you go out to the party. Works GREAT!!!!!
I think the main part of the problem is drinking cheap beers, liquors, wine whatever. Also just suck it up and go with it. If it doesn't kill you it can only make you stronger right? I have though found sex to get a lot of bad energy out of me.
you really want the elixer, the antidote for a hangover? First, stop drinking booze at least an hour before bed. drink at least 24 ounces of cold water. 1/2 hour before bed, take 2-3 ibuproferen/Advil (yes. 3 works better than two). AND (and this is the key) Take 1-2 Pepcid Complete or a very strong antacid tab. (I'm not talking rolaids or Tums here, I'm talking the expensive Pepcid Complete or like kind antacid pills) Take them with the Advil. Drink some more water. Now go to bed. If necessary, repeat in the morning. You will find this really does work.
This does work, but it works with tums too Take it before bed and you will wake up with no hangover.
My ex-husband drank nearly every weekend. He ceased drinking on Sunday Night. I never knew of him having a hangover or complaining of a headache or upset stomach the next morning. He would always take two aspirins before he went to bed. Monday morning he would go to work and he never felt badly.
Few tokes don't hurt neither.
2 shots of vodka and a liter of blue Powerade.
If you have a sure-fire way to treat a hangover, you probably have a drinking problem. Match a serving of alcohol with both a serving of water and food and just don't get a hangover in the first place.
Wow, all this talk about hangovers...why all the drinking? Maybe spend a nice night at home doing wholesome family entertainment. Maybe some Twenty Questions, parchesi, or a nice game of monopoly. Maybe a sing-along...Some good wholesome times with the family!
I think you're on the right track! However, sometimes the best of intentions go awry and you find yourself drinking too much at a party and then hungover the next day. Not a good feeling! I've found that cantaloupe always made me feel a little better, but nothing beats water, ibuprofen and a good night's sleep! Gatorade helps too.
Mavis, I am not sure that you recognize good satire when you see it...:)
Pedialyte is the best! One 8 oz glass of pedialyte and one 8oz glass of water before bed does the trick everytime. I keep the pedialyte room temp, if it's too cold it gives a bad brain freeze! It is salty I'd recommend the grape or cherry kind. Don't get the clear kind it tastes like pure salt...yuk!
Brawndo...The hangover mutilator. It has what your body craves. It has electrolytes...!
and now it comes with 100% more molecules!
What's that? Will have to Google it. Then Myself......without the computer.
Coconut water is the best cure. It has all 4 types of electrolytes that a human needs, Gatorade by contrast only has 2.
The reason you are "hungover" is mostly because you are dehydrated. Coconut water will rehydrate you the best.
Oh, and dont confuse this with coconut milk, not even close to the same thing
Coke (the real kind, not diet) and white bread works every time.
Water and Nopales are the best cure I've found. There are even some studies that claim to show that Nopal has a beneficial effect with regards to hangovers. I usually take my Nopal in pill form as it's much more convenient. Works every time.
One question, what is Nopal?
diet ginger ale. DIET...not regular that sugar is killer on a weak stomach haha. and dry toast.
1 BIG glass of water BEFORE bed, couple tokes in the morning. It really is about the dehydration, which is why I will be trying the pedialite method next time. word, thanks for the pointer.
or pho
The best things for hangovers are aspirin and lots of water or Gatorade but the secret weapon is....Dramamine !! The same thing that wards off that nausea from the sea or other motion, will also calm down the motion of the bed spinning around under you.
I second the Dimenhydrinate (Dramamine); it has saved my life many times. You don't even have to be that nauseated, it just balances your shaken body.
I very much second the pho as a hangover cure.
Hell yeah! Best cure out there.... go to the establishment that opens the earliest, and on with your day
Proven cure: 4 oz of MonaVie (any juice) and 8 oz of water before you go to bed and you won't have a hangover at all. If you didn't take it the night before then take 8oz inthe morning and 8oz of water and it will be gone in 20 minutes. The MonaVie Acai juice rids your body of toxins, like alcohol.
Let me guess, you sell MonaVie???
MLMs are an excellent means of thinning the herd if you have too many friends.
A hangover is just extreme dehydration. Drink Pedialyte before going to bed and when you wake up. It replenishes electrolytes without the extra sugar of Gatorade, which I find makes hangovers worse.
BAM. I agree with the pedilyte, how ever, I drink 1/2 bottle before bed and the other half the next morning and I am good to go
It's also an alkaline imbalance and expanded blood vessels, particularly in the head. Wake up, take an Alka Seltzer, go back to bed, wake up again in an hour or two, no hangover.
That's a lie.
The best cure a big plate of green chile enchiladas. You have the grease that seems to be common to many, the green chilies have lots of Vitamin C, and the Caspian gives you an endorphin rush that takes care of those aches and pains. The added benefit is the food comma that follows should take care of any lingering effects. Got me through college.
A big plate of any kind of enchiladas (as long as it's Tex-Mex) with lots and lots of hot sauce.
capsaicin? or the prince of narnia?
LOL!
Take a half a zanax, and two advil...then get cozy in the couch and enjoy a nap with football.
Foolproof cure for hangovers...has worked great for over 20 years; AA. Hangovers are for you sorry sots who can't have fun sober & keep on thinking denial is a river in Egypt
boo.... hisss...
Wow, a little harsh aren't you? I didn't know AA taught its members to be so judgmental and brand everybody who drinks too much once as an alcoholic.
CHRIS: A little BITTER that you can't drink anymore? Boo Hoo. You had your chance and it seems YOU are the one that lost, not those that can drink like civilized Ladies and Gentlemen. I am glad though that you at least decided to go to AA. I know alot of people that would not be here if it wasn't for that 12 step program. So, work your steps, quit calling people names and thank God that you are still with us to cry and complain.
Nothing helps deal with a hang-over better than Mexican food! Especially, Menudo. My (White) girlfriend of 19 yrs. simply gasped and said "Gross!, that's disgusting!" when I mentioned Menudo and it's magical properties. Yes, the ingredients are hard to "stomach" but, after the New Year's party of '99 to 2000, she was so sick, she gave in and tried it. At first I thought I would have to bring out the ol mop and bucket but, she ate it and drank lots of water and within a couple of hours she was fine! Today, almost 11 yrs. later, we have not had 1 alcoholic drink since Y2K and feel great. She loves Menudo and demands that I get her some every Sunday (It's my fault she is addicted) and as far as any celebrating? There is nothing like a nice little stash of weed but, it must be light-green SATIVA as Indica is used for sleep and when feeling "Frisky".
GOD I love menudo: sober, sick, yesterday, tomorrow, my birthday, your birthday, in the morning, at night, while doing it, when pooping......Menudo all the time! Add cilantro and Lime. Hey, I can rhyme!
Gangsta-That chick is hot though!
Fer reelz.
O.K. I have spent half of the morning reading all of these cures for hang-overs and decided to share the ultimate and most secret of all cures. I am not responsible for any and/or all ultimate results. Here goes: Take 2 grams of Black-Tar Heroin and mix with 1.5 grams of PERUVIAN Cocaine, stir gently. Then add 4-60 mg. tablets of Oxycodone crushed to a fine powder and half-a-gram of at LEAST 90% pure Methamphetamine-base, 2 tabs. of Dilaudid (4mg. each), 1 dram vial of Demerol, and the testes of a Moose,(Canadian not, Alaskan) Stir again and heat until desired consistency. "Draw" 8cc's into syringe and inject directly into femoral artery. That should do it!
Hey dummy, you should know better than to inject into an artery. Try a vein next time, you might get to keep your feet from shriveling up and falling off.