Taking two tablespoons of oil or a yogurt before consuming alcohol does not prevent drunkenness . It is also not true that the hangover disappears by drinking tomato juice or having a beer for breakfast. And much less running to "sweat" the extra drinks that we have ingested, since more than 90% of the alcohol we consume is metabolized through the liver.
Another popular misconception is that every time we drink alcohol, a handful of neurons die . Scientists at the Heildeberg University Hospital studied the effects of two glasses of wine on the brain with a scanner and found that only 6 minutes after drinking our brain begins to consume products of the breakdown of alcohol instead of glucose and changes its activity , which explains that we lose reflexes or disinhibition. Chemically, substances such as creatine, involved in obtaining and managing energy, and choline, a component of the cell membrane, decrease. But the next day everything returns to normal, which implies that the changes are reversible.
The same study showed that, contrary to what we usually think, there are no differences in the brains of men and women after consuming the same amount of alcohol : we all go to our heads equally.
