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January 14, 2025I’m a woman in my 40s. Why do I feel terrible every time I have a drink?
- As my female friends and I entered our mid-40s, many of us have found it harder than ever to tolerate alcohol.
- Although everyone is different, doctors say most women find it physiologically harder to process alcohol as they age because of their biology.
This summer an old high school friend of mine decided to quit drinking entirely. She didn’t want to, but she felt she had no choice.
“All of a sudden my body decided that alcohol is poison,” she told me recently over a bitter grapefruit mocktail at an Italian restaurant. “I can have as little as one drink, and I have a hangover.”
Like me, my high school friend was never a heavy drinker. She enjoyed having a glass of wine with dinner and a craft cocktail or two at a bar or restaurant with friends. If she had several drinks in a night she would expect to feel sluggish in the morning, but one or two was never a problem. Then, sometime in her mid-40s, her ability to tolerate alcohol plummeted.