Cheers to sleep and time when hung over

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Dear Doctor: My wife overindulged on her birthday and wound up with a pretty fierce hangover – headache, nausea, brain fog, the works. She got so much weird advice that it got us to wondering, what exactly is a hangover? Are there any remedies that actually work?

Dear Reader: Your question is one for the ages – literally.

References to the unique state of distress we call a hangover d…