Well, here's a perfect story to pre-game by: a new study claims that drinking heavily will actually boost your energy, which will probably come as a surprise to you if you ended up passed out at the 1st Ave L stop last night.

The study, which was conducted by the Journal of Clinical Investigation, found that drinking heavily will increase the levels of acetate in your brain, which can work as a sugar substitute in your bloodstream and translate into energy. The more you drink in a week, the more energy you'll have, according to the study (plus you'll live longer!) so it looks like taking all that caffeine out of 4Loko was pretty pointless, huh?

Of course, the study's findings don't suggest that alcohol itself will energize you, just that drinking more over a long period of time might give you an extra energy source to tap into when you're drained, so maybe don't start replacing your coffee with Jim Beam quite yet. Up next for science? Researchers say they plan to see if substituting alcohol with acetate could help alcoholics kick their addiction.