Why hangover from the years becomes worse

At age 18, hungover morning - this is when you want to drink, but if you have a headache, it means that the alcohol was of poor quality. 25 In the morning after drinking reminiscent of hell - in the head as if the crank sharp knife, sick, thoughts turning over slowly and deliberately. In 29 hangover drags on all day, and sometimes even the next. Here is an excerpt from the TV series "The Clinic", which illustrates this perfectly.

Why it happens? In fact there are several reasons.

Less liver enzymes

One of the main reasons that a hangover is becoming painful with age, is that you start to carry less alcohol. Each glass of beer or a stack of strong drink is processed for about two hours (the exact time can be calculated by taking into account sex, age and weight).

Here's how it works: hepatic enzymes, alcohol, processed alcohol into acetaldehyde. Then other enzymes, aldehyde dehydrogenase, which are made of acetate, which is converted into carbon dioxide and water.

When you are 21, this process is easy. But over time, the level of necessary enzymes decreases, and the body takes much more time for processing highly toxic acetaldehyde. This substance is in your body longer, causing

headache"Dry trees", nausea and other symptoms are familiar to all.

More fat, less water

Also changes with age overall body composition. People accumulate more body fat due to which the body becomes more susceptible to the effects of alcoholic beverages.

Fat does not absorb alcohol, and a person with a high percentage of body fat alcohol is absorbed worse. That's why women naturally have a higher percentage of fat than men to get drunk faster from smaller amounts of alcohol.

In addition, with age, the body loses water - in 20 years in the body of water larger than 40. The less water, the higher will be the concentration of alcohol in the body after its use.

immunocompromised

With age, the body weakens and you are worse than recovering from the impact of various harmful factors: illness, injury, alcohol.

As explained in the article on Online Time:

If you have kids, you know that the scratches on his knees and abrasions heal on their fists at them just two days. But if you cut your finger, it will take at least a week, the wound is fully tightened. In adolescents, pain in the muscles is very fast, and if the person is under the age visit the heavy training, it can knock him off balance for a few days.

The National Institute on Aging calls it immunostareniem or gradual weakening of the immune system. Study He suggests that with age, the body all the same continues to recover, it just is not as fast as before.

All this is particularly evident in middle age, after 50 years. As noted in the article, Wall Street Journal, Elderly people often take drugs for chronic diseases, and it is likely that the tablet will react with alcohol, which accelerates the natural decline in cognitive abilities. With each drink drunk negative effect is still noticeable.

Alcohol may increase cognitive decline characteristic of people aged. Neurons are becoming slower. The myelin sheath covering the axons and accelerate the transmission of nerve impulses become thinner. With age, neurons lose their performance, and if we add to this the effects of alcohol, they are several times less effective. So if you go to 65 years into the bar, just after a couple of cocktails you to think very bad.

The influence of lifestyle

What matters is not only the condition of the body, but also a lifestyle that you lead. It is much easier to cope with a headache, if after a stormy Friday you lie in bed and moaning softly. But if the house is worn pair of screaming children, and you have to cook, clean up or to go to work, then the headache risks becoming a nightmare.

In 2013 study found that the age at which there is the most awful hangover, it is 29 years old. And not because of physical factors, but because of the simultaneous effect of biology and circumstances. In 29 years, people often hold alcoholic habits left over from a young age, even if the hangover becomes painful and long.

If the 29-year-old and 45-year-old drink the same amount of alcohol, the hangover will be stronger than the second. But the point is that the 45-year-old people are less likely to get drunk.

So remember this and be kind to your body, because of the nature of her immune to aging and decline in cognitive functions you exactly good not wait.