Science says: the older you are, the less severe your hangover actually becomes

All those studies about hangovers and parties actually teach you one thing: your hangover gets worse as you get older. Well, not really.

I read a study that claims the opposite. Your hangover actually gets less severe as you get older, because, as the main conclusion states: you drink less as you age, because you can't handle alcohol as well. You just get tipsy and buzzed faster when you go out for drinks at, let's say, forty instead of twenty.

A scientist from Boston University School of Medicine explains it clearly: ‘Not everyone experiences the same kind of hangover. Most studies focus on hangovers in younger people under thirty, but few studies say how the tomcat hangover evolves with you throughout your life. Moreover, over 50,000 people participated in this study, so now we can really say something meaningful.’

And what is so important about these new findings? It's not just that as you get older, you might go out drinking less often than when you're young, fresh, fruity, and childless. The thing is: the older you get, the less often you engage in binge drinking. You might drink just as much as a twenty-year-old, but responsibly spread out over the whole week, and not on one night six hundred eighty limoncellos and vodka shots. That's why you get a less severe hangover as you age: your liver is better accustomed to that portion of wine. And scientists mainly believe that binge drinking is never a good idea, but that having a glass of wine here and there doesn't do much harm to your body.

According to lead researcher Stephens: ‘Younger drinkers get worse hangovers that also last longer. Twenty-somethings who enjoy a drink have up to twice the chance of getting a hangover compared to older, more experienced drinkers. So be careful, especially when you're young.’ Ha. All those studies that say you should drink less as you get older can go in the trash. Laugh at those teenagers and twenty-somethings. You know better: you have experience. In drinking wine, yes. Ah, it's the little things in life, right, that you should celebrate.

Source: Science Daily