The festive season is over for another year and 2026 has officially arrived. If you find yourself feeling a little bit worse for wear, a doctor has shared some advice you can use to help cure your hangover.
Earlier this month, Dr Zoe Williams appeared on ITV's This Morning to share some helpful advice for anyone who may be having a tipple or two this festive season - and what actually causes us to experience hangovers in the first place. In a clip shared to TikTok, Dr Zoe explained to hosts Cat Deely and Ben Shephard the main causes for your bad hangover, including one of the most common: dehydration.
The second is a build-up of "toxins in our system". She explained: "So alcohol turns to something called acetaldehyde which is a toxin and we need our liver to get rid of it."
The third main stressor to a hangover is lack of sleep and low blood sugars. To get around these, the doctor explained that people need to minimise the amount of alcohol you're drinking.
She said: "So pacing yourself, alternating drinks, maybe thinking about having spritzers or shandy."
You can alternate drinks by having a non-alcoholic drink between pints or glasses of wine. This can help keep you hydrated.
Dr Zoe continued: "So, yes, every second drink should be a non-alcoholic beverage. And here's the key one, stop two hours before you go to bed.
"So if you're at a party, a Christmas party, usually you leave that party, it's probably an hour before you're in bed. If you stop drinking an hour before the end of the party, because you're not really gonna benefit that much, you don't need that last drink.
"Two hours before you go to bed can really help reduce your hangover."
Dr Zoe said that avoiding one last drink at the end of the night can help avoid making your New Year's Day hangover worse.
Drinkaware shared some helpful advice for anyone needing to recover from a hangover. There are a few things you can do to alleviate your symptoms.
These include:
