Dihydromyricetin (DHM) (Hovenia Dulcis Extract) Liver Support Supplement (Naturally Obtained from The Oriental Raisin Tree) 300mg, 30 Capsules

I don't write reviews very often, but I had to for this one. This stuff is insane. It is legitimately a miracle.I have a kidney disorder called gitelman syndrome, which means I do not retain most of the electrolytes that enter my body. In other words, drinking is usually a HUGE risk for me because, 100% guaranteed, if I let loose and have a few, I will wake up feeling like I'm in a hellmouth at what will only be the beginning of a 2+ day-long hangover, at a level of dehydration that can only be rivaled by one of those sun-bleached tree branches laying in the middle of the desert that nobody knows how it got there but it's definitely super dead.So here's why this stuff is blowing my mind: 3 times now, I've had multiple drinks and been like "omg I forgot to take it" so I drunkenly pop 4-6 of them at once, and then when I wake up the next day... I feel FINE. I feel NORMAL. I don't have a hangover at all. Nothing. I still can't wrap my head around it. And I'm not gonna lie to you guys, one of those nights, I had apprx 6 beers, 2 shots, and 3 whiskey sours. I'm not proud of it but like... that's a full on binge and I woke up and felt TOTALLY NORMAL.Trust, these babies will save your damn life.

For the last several years, I've suffered from terrible hangovers that got progressively worse as time went by. I would be hungover after only three beers, or two glasses of wine, no matter how much water I drank/how much I ate/if I took any OTC meds to relieve symptoms. I would get SICK after drinking... vomiting, nausea, body chills, and headache. Eventually, after spending 12 hours vomiting and having to go to the hospital after my bachelorette party where I drank 6-8 beers, I decided to quit drinking.But I enjoy drinking! I wanted to drink at my wedding, at least some champagne, and I couldn't do that.I was highly skeptical of the claims that this would work... I'd used Chaser years ago to no effect. But, I really wanted to be able to enjoy myself on my wedding day without worrying about being completely useless the next day, so I purchased a bottle.I've since used the product correctly four times (and incorrectly twice). Let me tell you... I am blow away! I actually feel like a normal person when I wake up after a few drinks now! I do take an extra dose to make sure I get the full effect of these pills, since my hangovers are so terrible without them, and they are doing the job. The only times the product didn't work so well were 1) when I had a LOT to drink... But I think that was because I didn't take enough of the capsules... I probably should have taken 8 that evening but I only took 6. The other time, I forgot to take them at all. I DID take some when I woke up and went back to sleep, and I felt "okay" later... Not great, but not as awful as I'd felt earlier.So... If you have the terrible hangovers that I have, I highly recommend you at least try the product... I can now have a couple beers after the kids go to bed and no longer worry I'll wake up unable to move the next morning!

So the first thing you want to know is: does it work?Answer: yes, but with caveats.What I have found is the following.Do you want to drink, get buzzed, then take this at the end of the night and wake up with no hangover? It's going to be better than nothing, but only marginally effective.Do you want to take this and feel less drunk while drinking? The product seems to do this pretty well. You also feel better the next day.So, based on purely anecdotal evidence from a sample size of 1, what this products SEEMS to be doing is inhibiting the effect on your body of the alcohol that's in your blood and getting processed RIGHT NOW. That means if you take it before and during drinking, it lowers the total effect of all of your drinks on both your buzz and your morning after. If you take it after you're done drinking it helps to lessen your hangover by inhibiting the effect of the alcohol you've already consumed, but your body is still processing. Depending on how many drinks you've had, this may or may not be much of an impact.It doesn't reverse the effect of what your body has already processed before you take it. So, if you're five drinks in and then you pop this and have another drink, you're going to wake up like you drank 5+ drinks. If you drink two and then take a few of these and have 3 more, you may wake up feeling like you drank 2.5-4 drinks, but you're going to be less buzzed when you get to the end of that 5th drink also. (Obviously its up to you whether that's good or bad)Its not a magic get out of jail free pill for drinking, but in my experience it does have a noticeable effect when used in a manner consistent with the above description of its effects and with a reasonable amount of alcohol. (Others in the reviews have noted that when taking a large dose of these pills with a large dose of alcohol there seems to come a point where the pills aren't marginalizing the alcohol enough to make a noticeable difference, but, IMO, if you're drinking THAT much, you should probably just stop period.)