As a useless anecdote, I took Lumina in November of last year. I generally drink a lot, and have commented on hangovers getting 2-4x worse in the past few months to friends, before reading this post or knowing anything about your hypothesis. This has occurred only in the last few months and I’m 24 years old.
It would be ironic if that turned out to be true, but because of our apparent Western cultural cycle right now being anti-alcohol, came to be regarded as a feature of the Lumina bacteria rather than a bug (of the bugs).
Interesting. I took Lumina around December and have noticed no change, though I don’t think I’ve actually been hungover during that time period. I definitely didn’t notice any difference in the AMOUNT needed to produce a hangover; I drunk a substantial amount and didn’t get hangovers any more easily.
It might have conditioned your oral and gut flora to break down ethanol into acetaldehyde faster. I’ll have a follow-up piece on hangovers and AFR coming soon, but the short of it is that certain antacids taken before drinking may help by decreasing ethanol first pass metabolism.
As a useless anecdote, I took Lumina in November of last year. I generally drink a lot, and have commented on hangovers getting 2-4x worse in the past few months to friends, before reading this post or knowing anything about your hypothesis. This has occurred only in the last few months and I’m 24 years old.
It would be ironic if that turned out to be true, but because of our apparent Western cultural cycle right now being anti-alcohol, came to be regarded as a feature of the Lumina bacteria rather than a bug (of the bugs).
Interesting. I took Lumina around December and have noticed no change, though I don’t think I’ve actually been hungover during that time period. I definitely didn’t notice any difference in the AMOUNT needed to produce a hangover; I drunk a substantial amount and didn’t get hangovers any more easily.
It might have conditioned your oral and gut flora to break down ethanol into acetaldehyde faster. I’ll have a follow-up piece on hangovers and AFR coming soon, but the short of it is that certain antacids taken before drinking may help by decreasing ethanol first pass metabolism.
Would you be willing to share your ethnicity? Even as simple as “Asian / not Asian”?
I’m white.