Wouldn’t it be better to not drink too much in the first place.  Dah!.

Cyndi O’Meara

The dreaded morning-after feeling could be a thing of the past after scientists in South Korea came up with a technique that allows drinkers to avoid a hangover, Sky News reported Thursday.

A team of researchers added extra oxygen to drinks and found that the body was then able to metabolize the booze quicker and eliminate the alcohol quicker — cutting down the after affects.

Healthy humans were given 8 ounce and 12 ounce drinks containing 19.5 percent alcohol by volume — all with different amounts of oxygen added.

The results, documented in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, showed those who consumed the more highly oxygenated drinks recovered more quickly and saw their blood alcohol levels return to normal more speedily.

“Elevated dissolved oxygen concentrations in alcoholic drinks accelerate the metabolism and loss of alcohol,” according to researchers In-hwan Baek, Byung-yo Lee and Kwang-il Kwon of Chungnam National University’s College of Pharmacy.

“Thus, enhanced dissolved oxygen concentrations in alcohol may have a role to play in reducing alcohol-related side effects and accidents.”

The only downside the researchers found was that the process also reduced the amount of time drinkers were actually drunk for.

A Korean drinks company is now launching an oxygenated ‘soju’ drink called O2 Lin – a drink the company says “helps clarify your brain, energizes your body cells, and maintains healthy and resilient skin.”

SOURCE LINK: Sky News in Fox News.com, March 4 2010, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588023,00.html