As you get older hangovers are easier to deal with, study claims

Most people find that hangovers change from something that can be easily shrugged off to a near-catastrophic event as you get older.

Instead of something that can be cured with a Maccies breakfast, you find yourself annihilated in bed for days wondering what you’ve done to yourself.

However, a new study has claimed quite the opposite, revealing that ‘hangover severity declines with age’.

Collating feedback from 761 people aged between 18 to 94 years old, according to the study when participants drank booze older people suffered less the next day.

The research, titled Alcohol Hangover Across the Lifespan: Impact Of Sex and Age, places this partly down to a decline in pain sensitivity as we get older, suggesting that we just get better at dealing with it as we age.

According to the study one of the biggest reasons we suffer worse hangovers when we’re younger is because we drink more in a shorter space of time.

It suggests that people drink more alcohol but over a spread out period as we get older, rather than one or two very heavy drinking sessions.

Essentially the research says younger people get worse hangovers because they drink more alcohol in one go, they drink it in a shorter period, and as an end result they get more drunk.

However, whether you are 18 or 80 how drunk you are is ‘the strongest predictor of next-day hangover severity’, so if you drink too much you’re going to get a bad hangover whatever age you are.

It concludes: “Taken together, our study confirms that both subjective intoxication (how drunk you choose to get) and hangover frequency decline with age.

“The study also adds that hangover severity declines with age, and this relationship remains after controlling for eBAC (estimated blood alcohol concentration) or the amount of alcohol consumed.”