為何年紀(jì)越大宿醉似乎越糟糕

Why Hangovers Seem to Get Worse as You Get Older

為何年紀(jì)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.

隨著年齡增長好多事都會(huì)變得更困難，包括一夜宿醉后恢復(fù)正常狀態(tài)。如果你感覺自己處理宿醉不似從前那般了，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，你曾一度于周五晚瘋狂一把，然后周六早上來一杯咖啡就沒事似的過去了。但是當(dāng)你年齡越來越大，你的恢復(fù)期則可能會(huì)是幾個(gè)小時(shí)到幾天。Cari Romm在《科學(xué)美國人》上表明這可以歸結(jié)為幾個(gè)關(guān)鍵原因。首先，肝酶乙醇脫氫酶以及用來分解酒精和剩飯剩菜的乙醛脫氫酶開始降低，這意味著那些讓人難受的剩飯菜中含有的乙醛將比以前在你的身體里待的時(shí)間更長。

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統(tǒng)慢慢變?nèi)?，?dāng)你慢慢變老，每次身體恢復(fù)都會(huì)使你感覺更糟。不過你的身體仍然知道如何進(jìn)行自我保護(hù)和自我治愈，只是沒有以前那么快了。而且，在很大程度上你的生活方式?jīng)Q定了你的感受。由于變老，你需要承擔(dān)更多的責(zé)任和義務(wù)，所以你不能整天躺在床上等著恢復(fù)。這就使得宿醉比以前更糟糕了，因?yàn)槟阍诠ぷ骰蛘哒疹櫤⒆拥臅r(shí)候一直在抵抗頭疼、惡心等。