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Study Finds Exact Age Hangovers From Hell Start

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Updated 12:07 19 Jun 2022 GMT+1Published 11:45 19 Jun 2022 GMT+1

Study Finds Exact Age Hangovers From Hell Start

Hangovers get worse over the years due to our ageing bodies

Emily Brown

Emily Brown

You're in your early 20s; you wake up after three hours of sleep and countless drinks with nothing more than a hint of tiredness and a need for greasy food.

Flash forward a few years, and one too many sips of wine after a long day is enough to leave you out of action for hours the following morning, being forced to become best friends with paracetamol and swearing you'll never touch another drink as long as you live. Or at least until the weekend.

It's a very unfortunate turn of events, but one which is pretty much unavoidable as our bodies get less and less good at dealing with alcohol.

Hangovers begin to hit hard in our 30s.
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Things continue to worsen throughout your 20s, but apparently it's one specific year in your 30s when the hangovers really start to do some damage.

According to survey of 2,000 people aged from 18 to 65 commissioned by greeting-card company Thortful, it's your 34th birthday you have to dread if you're not someone who does well after drinking.

That's the age respondents felt their hangovers really started to sting, while the following year was found to be the one where hangover start to last two days. So there's your weekend gone.

Apparently we're not very good at learning from our mistakes, though, and it's not until the age of 37 when people finally start to acknowledge and recognise their limits.

After that, it seems the fear of being hungover gets the better of us as 38 is when people start feeling too ‘old’ to go out, while those who have chosen to start a family found that at 39 they started to feel more drunk after just two drinks.

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It's all downhill with hangovers after the age of 34.
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Dr. Deborah Lee, of Dr Fox Online Pharmacy, said little research has been conducted on the severity of hangovers with ageing, but explained they come about due to 'the breakdown of alcohol and the persisting presence of its toxic metabolite – acetaldehyde – in the body', Metro reports.

"Hangovers are likely to worsen with age because the activity of the key enzymes involved in alcohol breakdown becomes less efficient with age," the doctor explained. "Also, older people have less muscle and more fat, plus the distribution of water within the body alters as we age. The end result is higher levels of blood alcohol which take longer to metabolise."

Many people in their late teens and early 20s might brush off the comments from older friends to 'enjoy it while it lasts', but if the results of this survey are anything to go by, we really should start making the most of our milder hangovers.

Featured Image Credit: Pexels/Shutterstock

Topics: Food And Drink, Health, Science

Emily Brown
Emily Brown

Emily Brown is the Community Desk Lead at LADbible Group. Emily first began delivering news when she was just 11 years old - with a paper route. She went on to graduate with a BA Hons in English Language in the Media from Lancaster University before contributing to The Sunday Times Travel Magazine and Student Problems. She joined UNILAD in 2018 to cover breaking news, trending stories and longer form features, and now works as Community Desk Lead to commission and write human interest stories from across the globe.

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