Everyone has their own little traditions for starting the new year off. For the majority of the world’s citizens, that means ringing in the new year with a hangover. I’m not sure why so many of us think the best way of starting off fresh is in a great deal of pain, but there ya go.

Thanks to a entrepreneur in the U.S., the dreaded hangover may well be a thing of the past. Hailed as a miracle cure by its maker, a single dose of Blowfish can eradicate all symptoms sparked by a night of heavy drinking – such as nausea, vomiting and fatigue – in just 15 minutes. The new over-the-counter remedy, which contains 500 milligrams of aspirin, 60 milligrams of caffeine, and an antacid to soothe upset stomachs, is now available on-line.

Brenna Haysom, a former financial analyst with no pharmaceutical background, teamed up with New York-based manufacturers Rally Labs LLC to come up with the ground-breaking formula. “I started on a quest to find something that really worked and could be taken the morning after drinking,” she says. ”After some research, I found a combination that did the trick, fast. I started sharing it with my friends, and they kept asking for more.”

Blowfish has been granted approval by the US Food and Drug Administration, which means it is safe to use. Hayson reports, ”It’s really made from old-fashioned ingredients, after my own personal experimentation I realized that this combination really worked.”

There is yet no word out from the general public if Blowfish works as advertised, or if it is just the newest version of the Airborne scam. Sounds like a handful of Excedrin and chugging a Red Bull would do the same trick.

Since it’s too late to try some Blowfish for this year’s new year hangover, you might instead want to follow the advice of nutritionists and eat a banana. The potassium-packed fruit may be your best friend on those mornings when it hurts to breathe. A banana will help your body rehydrate – and replenish the potassium you lost while drinking – and has a high vitamin C content as well as vitamin B6, which protects against DNA damage to the liver. Plus, the fructose in bananas will restore energy levels and magnesium will help tame that pounding headache.

And a hangover of a different sort is behind a complaint filed on Thursday by Luxury brand Louis Vuitton, who is suing Warner Brothers over The Hangover Part II, claiming one of their handbags featured in the movie is a fake. Huh. A knock-off Louis Vuitton bag in a movie about Bangkok, who’d have guessed?

In the film, Zach Galifianakis’ character, Alan, warns Ed Helms’ character, “Careful, that is… that is a Louis Vuitton.”

But the Vuitton people say it is NOT a Vuitton – but rather a fake. Citing trademark dilution, false designation of origin and unfair competition, Louis Vuitton is demanding that Warner Brothers modify the offending scene before continuing to distribute the movie, and goes so far as to request that all unmodified copies of The Hangover Part II be destroyed. Had the designer’s team of viscious media-whore lawyers bothered to watch the movie before filing their complaint they might have picked up on the gag that the bag WAS a fake.

So those of you who have picked up a bootleg copy of The Hangover Part II on the streets of Bangkok should burn your DVD to destroy the image of the bootleg copy of a Louis Vuitton bag in the flick. Or just keep it hidden away in your own fake Louis Vuitton bag.