Proven: a hangover after your thirties can last up to four days

Are you feeling like a dog from misery again? Drank too much? Is your head exploding after all that heavy wine? After your thirties, you're definitely in trouble, you know.

Miserable
Because then your hangovers can last as long as four days, experts say. Your body recovers less well from all that alcohol as you get older. Your kidney function decreases, your liver works more slowly, which means alcohol is broken down less quickly, and your muscle mass decreases while your fat content increases. And the more fat you have, the slower alcohol is broken down. A biology lesson that you won't be happy about. It makes you more sensitive to a real hangover with each passing year. For a bit of vomiting above the toilet, that kind of trouble. You can also feel unstable and emotional for days, precisely because you've drunk so much. Exactly what you're not waiting for.

At breakfast
It also has everything to do with your hormones. Australian dietitian Kate Save says that your hormone levels mean that after your thirties, you can feel hungover for up to four days, especially because you also sleep worse. This is also because you have less alcohol in your daily diet, so to speak. As a 19-year-old, you probably did nothing but hang out in the pub. You drank beer like water and had a mimosa at breakfast and kept going until six o'clock. Now that you're getting older, you're just less used to it. So when you go all out once, it hits you twice as hard.

So: 30+? Be sure to drink a glass of water. A warned person...