What is the best hangover supplement?
Cloud9 Daily Restore. It's the only one of these three with benfotiamine: 500 mg of the B1 form your body absorbs about 3.6 times better. It's doctor-developed and clinically studied, it works every day instead of one night at a time, and in our 12-week clinical trial 92% woke refreshed more often after drinking. It comes with a 180-day money-back guarantee, even on empty bottles.
Do ZBiotics or Cheers have benfotiamine?
No. ZBiotics has no B1 of any kind. Cheers Restore has 20 mg of thiamine HCl, the regular water-soluble form. Cloud9 Daily Restore has 500 mg of benfotiamine, the fat-soluble form your body absorbs about 3.6 times better.
Benfotiamine vs thiamine HCl: what's the difference?
Thiamine HCl is the cheap, water-soluble form of vitamin B1. It relies mostly on transporters in your gut to get in, and alcohol impairs those transporters. Benfotiamine is fat-soluble, so it doesn't depend on them, and in human studies it's absorbed about 3.6 times better than regular B1. That's why Daily Restore uses 500 mg of benfotiamine instead of thiamine HCl.
Why does alcohol drain vitamin B1?
Alcohol cuts how much thiamine (vitamin B1) your gut absorbs and how much your body keeps, and your body can't make its own. Low B1 is the best-known vitamin deficiency tied to drinking. B1 is what your cells use to turn food into energy, so running low shows up as next-day fatigue, irritability and fog.
Does ZBiotics work?
ZBiotics is a probiotic built to break down acetaldehyde in your gut, and only if you drink it first. Its own FAQ says that if you drink it the morning after, "It probably won't do anything," and its product page says alcohol "will still probably affect your well-being and your sleep." It has no B1, nothing for your liver and no sleep ingredients.
What's the best ZBiotics alternative?
Daily Restore. Instead of one bottle you have to remember before your first drink, it's 1 Daily Dose that's already working when you have a drink. It adds what ZBiotics doesn't have: 500 mg of benfotiamine, liver support and sleep support. And it costs $1.30 to $1.97 a day, against $7.17 to $13 for each bottle of ZBiotics.
Is Cheers Restore worth it?
Cheers Restore is a large dose of DHM you take after your last drink, built on cheaper vitamin forms: 20 mg of regular thiamine HCl instead of benfotiamine, basic cyanocobalamin B12, no folate, and plain L-cysteine instead of NAC. It only helps on the nights you take it, and its refund covers your first order and one bottle only. Daily Restore covers every day with 500 mg of benfotiamine, methyl B12, active folate and NAC, and a 180-day guarantee.
ZBiotics vs Cheers: which is better?
Cheers does more than ZBiotics: DHM, cysteine and vitamins against a single probiotic, and it costs less per night ($2.92 against $7.17 to $13). But neither has benfotiamine, and both are one-night products you have to time right. If you want 500 mg of benfotiamine, the B1 absorbed about 3.6 times better, every day, Daily Restore beats both.
Should I take Daily Restore before or after drinking?
Take it every day, whether you drink that day or not. Your benfotiamine and NAC work best when your stores are already full before alcohol arrives, and milk thistle works best taken daily so the support is steady. That way you never have to remember a pill before your first drink or after your last.
