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Should you imbibe too much tonight, or any other night, Las Vegas-based Get Down Art wants you to know it's got your back. The company sells and distributes The Hangover Recovery Shot, a little yellow bottle bearing six different images -- take your pick -- from, you guessed it, "The Hangover" movies.
The recovery shot is a "special combination of key essential amino acids, antioxidants and herbs." It is one of several new "hangover relief" products you may have seen advertised in the days leading up to New Year's Eve. There's also an effervescent tablet called Blowfish and the Bytox patch, designed to prevent a hangover.
The distributor of The Hangover shot estimates that 20 to 30 million people a week in the U.S. suffer from hangovers.
But do these remedies really work?
"My take on it, just by looking briefly at these products, is if something seems too good to be true, it probably is," says Melanie Dwornik, a Registered Dietitian who consults at the Extra Edge Academy, an athletic training facility in Pine Brook.
She cites a 2005 study in the British Medical Journal, which devised a long...