Why Hangovers Seem to Get Worse as You Get Older

为何年纪越大宿醉似乎越糟糕

Things get harder as you get older, and that includes recovering from a night of drinking. If it feels like you don’t handle hangovers as well as you used to, here’s why.

随着年龄增长好多事都会变得更困难，包括一夜宿醉后恢复正常状态。如果你感觉自己处理宿醉不似从前那般了，那么原因如下。

At one point in your life you could probably go crazy on Friday night and get by with nothing but a cup of coffee on Saturday morning. But when you get older, your recovery period could be anywhere from several hours to several days. Cari Romm at Science of Us suggests it comes down to a few key reasons. For starters, you have lower levels of the liver enzymes alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase that you need to break down the alcohol and it’s leftovers. That means acetaldehyde, one of the nasty leftovers that makes you feel awful, stays in your system longer than it used to.

生活中，你曾一度于周五晚疯狂一把，然后周六早上来一杯咖啡就没事似的过去了。但是当你年龄越来越大，你的恢复期则可能会是几个小时到几天。Cari Romm在《科学美国人》上表明这可以归结为几个关键原因。首先，肝酶乙醇脱氢酶以及用来分解酒精和剩饭剩菜的乙醛脱氢酶开始降低，这意味着那些让人难受的剩饭菜中含有的乙醛将比以前在你的身体里待的时间更长。

On top of that, you get worse at recovering from anything as you get older thanks to immunosenescence, or the gradual weakening of your immune system. Your body still knows how to protect and heal itself, just not as quickly. And last but not least, your lifestyle plays a big part in how you feel. Now that you’re older, you have more responsibilities and commitments you have to attend to, so you can’t just spend all day in bed recovering. This makes the hangover feel worse than it used to because you’re fighting headache pain and nausea while you work and take care of kids.

最重要的是，由于免疫衰老或者免疫系统慢慢变弱，当你慢慢变老，每次身体恢复都会使你感觉更糟。不过你的身体仍然知道如何进行自我保护和自我治愈，只是没有以前那么快了。而且，在很大程度上你的生活方式决定了你的感受。由于变老，你需要承担更多的责任和义务，所以你不能整天躺在床上等着恢复。这就使得宿醉比以前更糟糕了，因为你在工作或者照顾孩子的时候一直在抵抗头疼、恶心等。