Comments on: Does organic alcohol reduce hangovers? http://www.fermentarium.com/lifestyle/organic-alcohol-reduce-hangovers/ Everything you need to know about beer, wine, and homebrew Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: deege http://www.fermentarium.com/lifestyle/organic-alcohol-reduce-hangovers/comment-page-1/#comment-90 deege Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:01:48 +0000 http://www.fermentarium.com/?p=537#comment-90 Well before you can make a claim like that, you'll have to show 1) the<br>amounts of pesticides that make it through to your wine are at doses which<br>could possibly affect you and 2) that pesticides cause hangovers.<br><br>As for 1, research has shown very little makes it to your glass even if you<br>treat the grapes right before harvest. Here's one of many studies on this.<br><a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf960218y" rel="nofollow">http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf960218y</a><br><br>As for 2, I have seen no research linking hangovers to pesticides.<br><br>Another thing to consider is "organic" might not mean what you think it<br>means. "Organic" is a marketing term developed by the USDA to help smaller<br>farms compete with larger corporate farms. You can still use<br>herbicides/pesticides and be considered "organic", as long as you stick to a<br>list of approved herbicides/pesticides. You can read more about that from<br>Univ. of Berkeley: <a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/%7Elhom/organictext.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~lhom/organictext.html</a> Well before you can make a claim like that, you'll have to show 1) the
amounts of pesticides that make it through to your wine are at doses which
could possibly affect you and 2) that pesticides cause hangovers.

As for 1, research has shown very little makes it to your glass even if you
treat the grapes right before harvest. Here's one of many studies on this.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf960218y

As for 2, I have seen no research linking hangovers to pesticides.

Another thing to consider is “organic” might not mean what you think it
means. “Organic” is a marketing term developed by the USDA to help smaller
farms compete with larger corporate farms. You can still use
herbicides/pesticides and be considered “organic”, as long as you stick to a
list of approved herbicides/pesticides. You can read more about that from
Univ. of Berkeley: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~lhom/organictext.html

]]> By: Nomadpat http://www.fermentarium.com/lifestyle/organic-alcohol-reduce-hangovers/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Nomadpat Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:20:56 +0000 http://www.fermentarium.com/?p=537#comment-88 While this author is good at finding flaws in other tests, he is forgetting one important contributing factor in hangovers: people being sensitive to the pesticides/herbicides. In my experience there are two facets: the effects of ethanol, and the pesticides/herbicides/whatever else is added. It is the second part that make my hangover worse. So even though organic may not help the ethanol effect, it will eliminate the other sensitivies I have, and therefore the "hangover" is less severe. While this author is good at finding flaws in other tests, he is forgetting one important contributing factor in hangovers: people being sensitive to the pesticides/herbicides. In my experience there are two facets: the effects of ethanol, and the pesticides/herbicides/whatever else is added. It is the second part that make my hangover worse. So even though organic may not help the ethanol effect, it will eliminate the other sensitivies I have, and therefore the “hangover” is less severe.

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