Apparently if you down a glass of Korean pear juice before your New Year’s bender, you’ll be up the next morning, ready to cozy up to college football bowl games without much residual pain.

At least that’s what the experts say. And when it comes to those with wisdom in such matters, hangover remedies are many.

Just ask Jonny Goodman, bartender at The Dugout in Mexico.

“I can ask one of the experts,” was his response, turning to a couple of regulars at the far end of the bar. They settled on a dose of bitters – a bit hair of the dog, a bit herbal supplement, and it sounds more appealing than some hangover solutions. A jar of pickle juice anyone?

“We try to do a breakfast thing on New Year’s – good old grease,” Goodman explained. Many scientists and medical professionals agree, perhaps not to the fat, but to the carbohydrates.

Healthline’s Rachel Link wrote that “eating a hearty breakfast is one of the most well-known remedies for a hangover.” She explains that low blood sugar levels often result from a night of drinking and could contribute to the symptoms felt the next morning.

Bacon and eggs, buscuits and gravy – it’s all good. But most cultures lump their less desirable dishes into the hangover cure category, perhaps on the double negative theory. In other words, eating something many consider nauseating will cancel out your intestinal convulsions. There’s the offal mustiness of menudo, for example, or katogo.

If you must know, it’s a pairing of green bananas and organ meat.

But Goodman says The Dugout sells plenty of mimosas and Bloody Marys the next day, as people act on the hair of the dog theory. Again, there’s some scientific backing for this – although most doctors are reluctant to approve of such behavior.

According to Healthline, drinking converts methanol into formaldehyde, which is obviously not good. But drinking alcohol when hung over “can stop this conversion and prevent the formation of formaldehyde altogether.”

“We have a gentleman who drinks hot chocolate and Black Velvet,” Goodman said. “I’ve had one. They’re really good.”

But scientists will tell you that fundamental treatments are the most successful cures – things like drinking plenty of water before, during and after your night out, getting a lot of sleep, eating that healthy breakfast and avoiding alcohol entirely … which for most of us is not going to happen.

So scientists recommend you stay away from spirits with congeners.

Yes, congeners – a nasty little brat of a chemical by-product formed during the fermentation process. As Healthline reports, “Some studies have found that consuming drinks with a high amount of congeners could increase the frequency and severity of a hangover. Congeners may also slow the metabolism of alcohol and cause prolonged symptoms.”

Of course, the label doesn’t really help you on this one. In general, brown alcohols are higher in congener content, clear spirits lower. Bourbon contains the most, while vodka is practically congener-free.

Or you could just pour a glass of Korean pear juice.