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Story at-a-glance 1  -. Eating your boogers may help introduce pathogens from your environment to your immune system, helping it to learn and build defenses, according to a new theory in support of the hygiene hypothesis.
1 Eat Bread, Sober Up This old wivesâ tale seems to make sense: Eat some bread with your drinks and it will help soak up the booze. 2  And there actually could be a few crumbs of truth to it, Finkelstein says. 3  When you fill your stomach with food, you could be slowing the absorption rate of the alcohol youâre drinking. When you fill your stomach with food, you could be slowing the absorption rate of the alcohol youâre drinking. 2  However, he says, though it might help you a little bit, itâs probably not going to be enough to sober you up and keep you from getting drunk.