eli5: Why do hangovers get worse with age?
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Consumption of alcohol over a period of time is essentially the equivalent of poisoning your body. When you’re young, your organs could handle it because they are at their best fighting it of but as the years go by and you’re not changing your ways, the casualties simply becomes too much. Slow recovery, sluggishness is a sign the body is trying but barely slowing down the the eventual decline. When even that fails then one of your organs will go with it and you will be be needing medications: possibly for the rest of your life. When even that fails…
Well, RIP.
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