So the lat­est over the counter mir­a­cle cure called ‘Blow­fish’ has been on the mar­ket in the
US since last year and is due to hit Europe in the next few months. It claims to get rid of a hang­over in an amaz­ing 15 min­utes! That’s just mental.

It con­tains an antacid to set­tle the stom­ach as well as 60 mg of caf­feine and 1000 mg of aspirin com­bi­na­tion for your head, the max­i­mum approved amount in one dose! It may sound very sim­i­lar to Alka Seltzer XS but it claims it’s effects are more potent due to the higher dosage of aspirin.

To top it all off it wasn’t even cre­ated by a sci­en­tist! It was cre­ated by Brenna Haysom, a for­mer fanancier and Har­vard grad­u­ate. She came across the for­mula by try­ing out 100s of dif­fer­ent ways to get rid of her hang­overs. Once she found the com­bi­na­tion that worked her friends couldn’t get enough so Miss Haysom took it to the New York-based man­u­fac­tur­ers Rally Labs LLC who tested it and agreed to col­lab­o­rate with her.

It all just sounded a bit too good to be true so the Get Rid Of A Hang­over HQ ordered some from Ama­zon to give it a test run.

The con­clu­sion

After skulling the rea­son­able amount of 5 pints of strong lager the night before I woke up with a fuzzy head and a bad gut. I’d say I had a mod­er­ate hang­over. This was def­i­nitely a good oppor­tu­nity to put Blow­fish to the test and see if it actu­ally could get rid of a hang­over effectively.

As directed by the instruc­tions, to use Blow­fish I just dis­solve the effer­ves­cent tablets in water then knock it back and wait for it to take effect. After wait­ing for 10 min­utes to pass it didn’t feel like much had hap­pened but around the 15 minute mark I was start­ing to feel an improvement.

I wouldn’t say that this was the mir­a­cle cure it was cracked up to be but for mild to mod­er­ate hang­over symp­toms it actu­ally did a pretty good job. I cer­tainly felt a lot more like nor­mal after­wards; my head had cleared, I felt more alert and my stom­ach had settled.

All in all I’d give Blow­fish a score of 3 out of 5. It’s def­i­nitely worth keep­ing some in your cup­boards if you find your­self with a mild to mod­er­ate hang­over but it may not do the trick for any­thing stronger.

Blow­fish is avail­able from Ama­zon here for $49.99 for 50 tablets.