Sometimes you wake up in the morning with a pounding headache and other times you don’t feel anything at all. After a night of partying, alcohol always seems to affect you Differently. Experts Explain to Nu.nl How this is Possible.
It’s not strange to feel bath after drinking alcohol. It is well known that the substance is bad for your health. Hence the Advice from the Health Council: Do not drink or drink no more than one glass per day.
This is generally ignored QUITE orTEN. Especiate with the nice weather, the Terraces are full of people who want a drink. Just though drinking alcohol can lead to cancer, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, among other things.
How That Hangover Feeling Arises
Until Maybe the next morning, when you wake up with a head as if a a truck has run about it. Kees Kramers, Internist-Clinical Pharmacologist at Radboudumc, Says That A Hangover is a Sum of Three Effects of Alcohol:
- You have a fluid shortage
- Your Sleep is Disturbed
- Toxic Substances are Released Turning the Breakdown of Alcohol
If all these effects of alcohol occur, you may wake up with a worse hangover the next morning. But that Doesn’t Have To Be the Case. “This is partly because the absorption and breakdown or alcohol can be influenced by Various circumstances,” Says Arnt Schellekens, Professor of Addiction at Radboudumc.
“For example, by what you have eats or drunk, what is in your stomach and the use of medicines. That is called kinetics,” he says. This refers to the speed at which a substance disappears from your body. You cannot speed up the breakdown or alcohol. Good to know: The liver takes an hour to an hour and a half to break down a standard glass of alcohol. If you drink Eight Glasses, Your Liver is Busy Breaking Down The Alcohol For Eight To Twelve Hours.
Your Mental State Can also Play A Role
It also DEPENDS ON WHETER YOUR STOACH PRODUCTS A LOT OF ACID, Kramers Knows. “And the amount of water or fluid you continuous to drink in addition to glasses or bear or wine.” By continuing to hydrate in Between, you can somewhat counteract the fluid deficiency. Furthermore, Your Genetic Makeup also plays a Role. “For example, Asians are less able to break down the substance acetaldehyde in alcohol, which can cause them to have more complaints.”
Not only these effects of alcohol make the differentence. How you feel mentally can also play a role. “Just like what expectations you have and in what context you use alcohol,” Says Schellekens. “For example, alone or in the crowd, or in a pleasant or aggressive environment.”
Kramers Thinks that the effects of alcohol, just like with other physical complaints, can just as well be influenced by your psychological state. “If you are feeling good, you will suffer less, if you are feeling bad, the complaints will hit harder.”