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Do you remember what a perfect little resilient baby you were in your early twenties? Do you remember when you used to laugh at how hungover you were? The muscles in your face, when you were hungover, worked enough for you to laugh? And you actually found humor in what you were going through. Who was that? That must have been some alien who inhabited your body for a while. A lot of us have, “How did I do that?” and “Why did I do that?” moments when we look back on our early twenties. Your mind and body changes drastically after the age of 25 or so. Certain hormones drop off while others increase. Certain synapses in your brain don’ fire as much or as properly. You just don’t bounce back the way you once did. Here are things that get much worse as you get older.
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Hangovers
As we already mentioned, hangovers are so much worse now. Perhaps it’s the combination of the fact that you cannot metabolize alcohol as well, and the fact that you have real things to get done when you’re hungover. You have to do taxes and negotiate rates with contractors and smile through baby showers hungover.
