Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
The first time I drank too much wine in my 30s, I was sick for two straight days. Since then, drinking too much of anything is a recipe for disaster, and I know that I’m not alone in not being able to throw down and party without (many) consequences the way I could a decade (or two) ago.
It turns out there’s a scientific reason – or rather, a few of them – that most people struggle to process alcohol as they age. Thirty is the average age when most start to notice a marked difference in their ability to drink and feel well the next day, and I’m sorry to say that the research says it only gets harder with each passing year.
The first issue is that your body thinks alcohol is poison. That fact causes your liver to convert it into different chemicals that are easier to break down and eliminate, but as you get older, your liver produces less of the goodies that metabolize alcohol.
One of the essential enzymes for breaking down alcohol efficiently, alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) is known as the body’s primary defense against alcohol and is responsible for starting the process of metabolization…
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