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A quarter of people have never had a hangover

A woman in bed without a hangover

Every weekend I swear again on everything that this is really the last weekend that I feel this way. I hold on to that faithfully. Until it's Friday again.

Nothing is as wasteful as spending a weekend lying in bed suffering because you have a big fat hangover. However, this does not apply to everyone: certainly a quarter of people can sit at the bar as long as they want, but waking up with a pounding head and serious nausea? Definitely not. They never suffer from a hangover.

No matter how drunk you get together and how rough your day after begins: your friend is super fit. You know them, those people who text ‘Hey, I feel great, I HAVE ALREADY WORKED OUT today!’. At half past eight. You could shoot them, yes, while you’re hanging over the toilet crying. But yes, a quarter of people can just handle alcohol better. It has to do with their build, their liver, and their genes.

A life without hangovers… Just imagine what you could accomplish:

  1. You drink every day because yes, you don’t get any trouble from it. Long live the fun. Not very healthy maybe, but well, a summer like this calls for it.
  2. You suddenly have an incredibly long-lasting weekend. As if it’s a week of vacation. Because: you are fit at 9 o'clock in the morning. Just like that friend, yes. And so you can go to the market. Shop. Have breakfast.
  3. You exercise more because you have time left over. That’s healthy again.
  4. You can work overtime all weekend and suddenly earn thousands of euros more per year. Just to name a few.
  5. You disappoint fewer people because you no longer want to hang around like a potted plant on the couch and you actually want to meet up with this and that person.
  6. As a result, you have more friends, a wilder love life, a happier family, and YES: you even read a book. Smart you.
  7. You have a tidy house. Cleaning on the weekend is no problem at all. A tidy life, therefore, without scattered pink flamingos and boas from a barbecue that got out of hand, for example. No way, you’re already on that tennis court at dawn and the white, fresh laundry is already out.

Ah yes, a sweet utopia. Fortunately for the other 75%, there are still things like aspirins and ibuprofen. Did you know that the first ibuprofen was ever used to test whether it worked against a hangover? I mean: it was meant to be. Don’t text that always fit friend in the morning and go stretch out in your bed until about half past three in the afternoon with a clear conscience. Many do it together with you.