ELi5: Why does drinking alcohol give you a worse hangover as you get older?

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ELi5: Why does drinking alcohol give you a worse hangover as you get older?

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Answer 1

Another eli5 answer here, your body can actually become “conditioned” to handle alcohol, the more often you drink, the better the hangovers are. I think 9/10 times when people say their hangovers are worse now that they are older, it’s because they don’t drink as regularly as they did when they were young. Simple as that.