Hungover

What Happens to Your Body When You’re Hungover?

You Might Experience Difficulty Concentrating

During a hungover, your memory and attention can take a hit, making it difficult for you to concentrate. This can affect your productivity in the days to come.

Your Body Loses Fluids

Do you know why people always feel thirsty after a night of heavy alcohol drinking? Talking large amounts of alcohol disrupts the production and release of vasopressin. Being shot on this hormone means your kidney cannot hold fluids. As a result, you frequently urinate, leaving the body dehydrated. It is this dehydration that causes peopleto feel thirsty.

You Might Experience a Headache

A headache during a hangover may stem from dehydration (when your body loses too many fluids through urination). Excessive alcohol consumptions also lead to wider blood vessels. When your blood vessels expand, there is a good chance you will experience a headache due to a change in blood flow.

Why Hangovers Seem to Get Worse as You Age

When you age, your liver loses its ability to hold many essential minerals, antioxidants, and amino acids. Because minerals, antioxidants, and amino acids are beneficial for breaking down alcohol, being shot on them means your liver will take a long time to break down alcohol. The result? Severe fatigue, dizziness, nausea, and headaches.

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Ieva Kubiliute is a psychologist and a sex and relationships advisor and a freelance writer. She's also a consultant to several health and wellness brands. While Ieva specialises in covering wellness topics ranging from fitness and nutrition, to mental wellbeing, sex and relationships and health conditions, she has written across a diverse range of lifestyle topics, including beauty and travel. Career highlights so far include: luxury spa-hopping in Spain and joining an £18k-a-year London gym. Someone’s got to do it! When she’s not typing away at her desk—or interviewing experts and case studies, Ieva winds down with yoga, a good movie and great skincare (affordable of course, there’s little she doesn’t know about budget beauty). Things that bring her endless joy: digital detoxes, oat milk lattes and long country walks (and sometimes jogs).

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