Blowfish: FDA Approves Hangover Cure (No It's Not Fugu)

By Amy Scattergood Wed., Dec. 28 2011 at 10:23 AM

Anne Fishbein

dried fugu

Conveniently in time for this weekend's New Year's Eve festivities, the FDA has finally approved a hangover cure: a pill called Blowfish. Designed by Brenna Haysom, a Manhattan-based Harvard Business School grad, and developed by Rally Labs LLC, the pill is a combination of aspirin and caffeine and was made to alleviate, well, what you'd think it would: the pain and fatigue of drinking a hell of a lot more than you probably should have.

Why is it called Blowfish? And why can't you just chug some espresso with a few actual aspirin? Ah, the mysteries of advertising. Blowfish, which is meant to be taken the morning after your bender, is kind of like Alka-Seltzer (tablets, fizz) and contains 1000 mg of aspirin and 120 mg of caffeine -- in layman's terms, that would be a cup of coffee and, um, some aspirin. Haysom ("Before dedicating my life to hangovers, I was a normal New Yorker") writes on the website that she tried lots of herbal remedies, but found that this combination worked the best. Why not. It's probably a lot better than actual blowfish for curing hangovers, although death-by-fugu could be considered the ultimate hangover cure -- especially considering the amount of sake some people consume with the stuff.

A footnote: If Urasawa's fugu is too pricey for you, pick up some dried blowfish the next time you're in Kyoto. Not only is it considerably cheaper, but it looks like it's been spun from sugar. Not a bad thing in a potentially deadly bar snack.

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Amy Scattergood, Blowfish, fugu, hangover cure

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Mdmjumel

okay, so what stores are carrying Blowfish?

IBN8

Amazingly they have linked Marijuana to producing protective layers for neurons that would be effected by alcohol. Mix in a fatty burger and you have the perfect cure.

1 Burger1 J1 Beer and you are fresh as a daisy! lol

nvcplus

Advil and water. And maybe some greasy food.

THe last thing I want when my body is already dehydrated and anxious, is caffeine.

Zahen29

Alcohol is in your blood. It needs to get out. Caffeine speeds up your blood. Therefore the blood circulates and cleans itself faster.

Corey Gold

I like the idea from a business sense. American's will buy items witha catchy name and funky bottle but in the end it is simply aspirin and a cup of coffee. Seems like one sould just take them seperately for a lot cheeper.

David

Excedrin, anyone?

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