The hated hangover is only a little less mysterious to scientists than to the rest of us, but evidence - and experience - suggest that it does get nastier with age.
Research suggests that our hangovers start getting noticeably worse at age 29, but the reasons are not entirely clear, or agreed upon.
Most experts suggest it’s due to a number of factors including our bodies’ fat content, diminishing ability to process and - for lack of a better term - practice at drinking excessive amounts.
We break down what happens to your body after 29 to make recovery so much more brutal.
Our bodies have an incredible ability to adjust to survive just about anything we subject them to, at least in the short term, including too much to drink.
If you continually subject your liver to an onslaught of your favorite elixir, it catches on quickly and prioritizes alcohol digestion over other processes, enabling you to break it down more efficiently and quickly.
But, practice makes perfect, and your liver adjusts in the opposite direction if you stop drinking such a high volume: your liver gets a sort of reset, and goes back to producing lower levels of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH).
Though the timeline for this reset depends on factors like age, sex, genetics and size, you can typically get back to a baseline tolerance in a matter of a few days.
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