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How to Sober Up Fast: Drinks, Food, Timing, and Precautions

Sinchon Dain Dental Hospital · 신촌다인치과병원 · July 14, 2025

How to sober up fast: drinks, food, timing, and precautions Drinking gatherings with comfortable people are enjoyable and full of fun, but there are many people who end up drinking...

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Clinic: Sinchon Dain Dental Hospital

Original post date: July 14, 2025

Translated at: April 24, 2026 at 12:52 AM

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How to sober up fast: drinks,

food, timing, and precautions

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Drinking gatherings with comfortable people are enjoyable and full of fun, but there are many people who end up drinking too much and then struggle the next day with a hangover.

Even after 충분한 rest, alcohol may still remain in the body, so it can be helpful to know in advance how to sober up fast to some extent.

Today, we will take a detailed look at various ways to sober up fast, helpful drinks, foods, and precautions.

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Because alcohol takes some time to be detoxified by the liver, it generally takes an average of about 6 to 12 hours to recover fully.

Drinks and nutrients that help detoxification, along with enough sleep and metabolism support, can indirectly help speed up hangover recovery and clear your head more quickly.

To sober up faster, it is important to drink enough beverages that help detoxification. Recommended drinks include plain water, electrolyte drinks, honey water, pear juice, and tomato juice.

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In particular, tomatoes help liver function and stimulate detox enzymes, so they are a beneficial drink when the liver feels tired after drinking too much.

Also, electrolyte drinks supply water and electrolytes together, helping prevent dehydration, and heukhnamun tea or pear juice has functions that protect liver cells and activate alcohol-degrading enzymes.

However, caffeinated drinks may make you feel temporarily more alert, but because they have a strong diuretic effect, they can cause dehydration, so they should not be overused.

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It takes some time for alcohol to wear off, and trying to force it may instead bring side effects, so caution is needed.

The most fundamental way to sober up fast is time, and the rate at which the body naturally breaks down alcohol varies depending on body weight, sex, and liver health.

Generally, adults reduce blood alcohol concentration by about 0.015% per hour, and if you drink a bottle of soju, it takes about 7 to 10 hours to recover properly.

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Foods that help relieve hangovers include warm, salty soups such as hangover soup, which replenish water and electrolytes, soothe the stomach, and help liver function recover.

Bean sprout soup contains a large amount of asparagine, which helps detoxify alcohol, and pollock soup is often eaten for hangover relief because it provides protein and amino acids.

Eggs are good because they contain a lot of methionine, which helps liver metabolism, and honey is also useful for recovery from fatigue and preventing low blood sugar by helping supply glucose to the liver.

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There are also precautions when trying to sober up fast. Using exercise or a sauna to try to sober up quickly can put strain on the heart.

Also, forcing yourself to vomit or taking an overly cold shower can actually make the body more tired and may reduce liver function, so these should be avoided.

Some people also consume a lot of caffeine or eat spicy foods, but this can cause heartburn and dehydration symptoms, so please be careful.

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