Why hangovers get worse with age

Ah our glorious twenties when we could drink all night, go to bed at two in the morning and still get up for a work the next day. All we needed was a cup of coffee, a slice of toast, a splash of water across the face and we’d be off to work as if nothing had happened…well, a bit of a groggy head perhaps but nothing more. Fast forward 20 years and it’s all change. For a start, you wouldn’t be drinking all night, nor staying out until two in the morning in the first place, but if by any chance you did, it would be a very different story to before. You’d feel so bad you’d scarcely be able to move, let alone get up and go to work. At this point you might wonder, was I really able to cope with alcohol better all those years ago, or am I just looking back with rose-coloured spectacles? Well, you're right. You really do cope much better with alcohol when you're young. This video explains why.