Red wine brownies are a thing that exists in the world and we couldn’t be more excited. But you know the best thing about them? You can either become the next Nigella with them or be lazy AF by using a brownie packet mix – giving you a little extra time to drink as you mess around with fewer ingredients. Of course, with a brownie mix it’s simpler – follow the instructions on the packet while adding in your choice of red wine. Following in the footsteps of Jesus and swapping water for wine 💦🍷😋 #redwinebrownies #maryberry #holymoly #baked #baking #asda #tuesdaybluesday A post shared by charlotteellis91 (@charlotteellis91) on Apr 28, 2015 at 8:00am PDT However, if you do fancy baking from scratch, ASDA has come up with the perfect recipe. Simply preheat the oven to 170C/150C fan/gas 3, grease and line a rectangular baking tray before melting 200g of plain chocolate with 170g salted butter over a pan of boiling water. Then add 250ml of wine in, followed by 250g caster sugar, 75g light brown soft sugar, 130g of plain flour, three beaten eggs, a tablespoon of vanilla extract and two tablespoons of instant coffee for extra taste.

🍷🍫RED WINE AND DARK CHOCOLATE BROWNIES #redwine #portwine #darkchocolate #brownies #redwinebrownies #drunkenbrownies #merlotbrownies #cabernet #browniesquares A post shared by Aishwarya M. Menon (@aishwarya_mahesh) on Sep 6, 2016 at 2:03am PDT Bake for 30-40 minutes in the oven, and after leaving to cool down and removing from the tray, dust the brownies with cocoa. Of course, you don’t need to use the coffee if you don’t fancy the taste – in fact, you could use something else all together. Best use of some leftover wine from the weekend 🍫🍷 red wine fig walnut brownies #isitfridayyet #notsurewhywehadanyleftovers #ashurstbakery #bravegoose #danlepard #redwinebrownies #baking #jacqccbakes A post shared by Jacq Chan-Chan (@jacqchanchan) on Jul 12, 2016 at 5:32am PDT Brownies de vino tinto con arándano edición especial para papá #redwine #redwinebrownies #fathersday #fathersdaybrownies #brownies #chocolate #pdpostres #postres #diadelpadre #guadalajara #mexico #mextagram A p

ost shared by pdpostres (@pdpostres) on Jun 13, 2015 at 9:35am PDT Today's hightea second round red wine brownies with the haagen dazs ice cream on top 😍 perfect #PlatCafe #brownies #redwinebrownies #icecream #haagendazsicecream #dessert #highteaday A post shared by Elaine_May (@elaine_4696) on Sep 16, 2015 at 7:19am PDT You what is the best flavor of wineknow what makes the perfect side to these brownies? A nice, can i buy wine in laxbig glass of red wine. Mmmm. best flavor of wine: Tesco are selling mulled wine scented toilet roll for Christmas MOREbest wine games mac: You can now taste test wine in pitch blackbest bottle of wine under 10

Do you have a question for Dr. Vinny? Does getting drunk on cheaper wine give a person a worse hangover? Or does quality have no correlation with the aftermath? Maybe, but not necessarily. It’s not as if wines that cost less than $10 are always going to make you feel bad, or that wines that cost more than $50 are never going to give you a hangover—which is terrific, because one of my favorite notes in wine is “affordable.” wine is the best medicineHow much wine you consume is the biggest variable.10 of the best south african wines When you’re feeling hungover, it’s because of a few things happening to your body. best wines to tasteYou’re dehydrated, you’re experiencing vitamin depletion (in particular, vitamins A, B—especially B6—and C), and you’ve got an accumulation of acetaldehyde, a toxic by-product of your body metabolizing alcohol.glass of wine standard size

Plenty of variables will impact these effects, including what it is you’re drinking in the first place. Sugar can accelerate the depletion of B vitamins, and some cheap wines might be on the sweet side, but some of the greatest, most expensive wines in the world are also sweet. Congeners—impurities formed during fermentation—can make hangovers worse. Some liquors have more than others, particularly whisky, bourbon and rum, and more congeners are typically found in red wine than in white. I’ve heard that less expensive wines also tend to have more congeners in them, but I haven’t seen any proof. Then there are histamines, which occur in wine and are known to cause headaches, so if you’re histamine intolerant, that might make your hangover feel worse. I’ve heard theories that wild yeast fermentations (which I’ve only seen in pricier wines) and problematic or rapid fermentations (which you might see in cheaper wines) increase the likelihood of histamines. Tannins can interfere with your serotonin levels, which also have a headache impact.

Some cheap wines might have added tannins or synthetic tannins, or because of the way the grapes are handled, they might have a whole bunch of tannins, but sometimes so do expensive wines. Less-expensive wines might use oak alternatives, which I’ve heard can sometimes be treated with chemicals to make the wine absorb the oak flavors faster, and that might also aggravate headaches. Taking all this information in, you can see that it’s not simply a matter of correlating the price of a wine with how it’ll make you feel the next day. The good news is that some researchers are looking into ways to alleviate hangovers, including one study that suggests we should all develop a taste for prickly pears.One of the most common questions about the Bulletproof Diet is whether alcohol is ok. I also hear, “How do I cure my hangover?” as well as “Is alcohol Paleo?” and “What should I drink when I am trying to stay Bulletproof but want to be social?”Let’s face it – not a lot of us have only one drink on big holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas or New Year’s Eve.

Even my most hardcore Bulletproof friends and readers drink every now and then. There is a way to have a drink – or a few – on occasion without harming yourself or even feeling the bad effects. You can even enjoy the buzz safely. I believe it’s optimal from a health perspective to not drink, but from a fun perspective, having a few drinks is relatively harmless.This post is about how to use biohacking to enjoy alcohol without many side effects (you know, things like cancer, aging, and hangovers).–>Ready to hack your hangover?  Check out Bulletproof’s anti-aging detox and repair kit here.And to celebrate the holidays, here’s an infographic that distills (ahem) all I know about alcohol, metabolism, and toxins into practical advice you can use.Share this graphic on your site with the code below

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Step 1 (optional): Choose the alcohol that will cause the least hangover problems.There are tons of types of alcohol but the most common ones are represented here. What you choose can make a huge difference in how you feel the next morning. Some alcohols have a lot more toxic byproducts from fermentation than others. They are, in order from best to worst: Vodka, gin, tequila, whiskey, other distilled spirits, dry cider, dry champagne, dry white wine, white wines, red wines, dessert wines, beer. Tragically, beer has the most toxins of any common alcoholic beverage…Step 2: Hydrate heavily by drinking a glass of water for every serving of alcohol you consume – ideally at the same time or right after.Before you can eliminate toxins, your body dilutes them with water so they don’t harm you on the way out. 

The water either comes from your tissues or water you drink – so drink water.Step 3: (critical) Block the conversion of alcohol into aldehyde, the most hangover-causing metabolite that also causes very fast aging, wrinkles, etc.Before each drink, take one Vitamin C capsule, along with a capsule of Unfair Advantage.Step 4: Do more if you want.Best:  The most powerful detoxer for the liver I know of is lipoceutical glutathione. That’s what I use if I drink.Good: Add Vitamin B-1 and/or Alpha Lipoic Acid and/or  N-Acetyl Cysteine before each drink, or at least before your first and after your last drink.  Those links have the correct dosages and are low cost per drink (I recommend those ones for fastest absorption.)Step 5: Mop Up What’s Left.Take 4 capsules of Activated Charcoal after you’re done drinking (or if you chose beer or wine, take 1 capsule with each drink).That’s all it takes. If you only do step 3 and no other step, you’ll probably feel ok the next morning.

If you do all the steps, expect to feel Bulletproof – even better than you feel on a normal morning.The wine industry has done a great job telling us that resveratrol is good for us. It might be – I don’t take it regularly because of concerns about it being mildly estrogenic. But even if it is, you’d need hundreds of bottles of red wine to get the amount of resveratrol in a single pill. So if you love wine, drink it and be sure to take activated charcoal to bind to the extra toxins generated by the yeast fermentation.There is even some evidence that one drink a day may have protective effects. The evidence I’ve seen is pretty vague and seems to be highly publicized by alcohol vendors, just like winemakers are big cheerleaders for resveratrol.I learned some of the techniques here from Steve Fowkes, a friend and one of the most brilliant biochemists and metabolic hackers I’ve ever met, who is author of Smart Drugs II.  Technical details about why some of this works is on Steve’s Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute site.–>Looking to hack your hangover?