EP 132: Reader Question - Why don't I get bad hangovers anymore?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes I have close to two bottles of wine at night, but don’t really get a hangover the next day. Why is this? Annie Grace answers this question with science, personal experience, and reasons why hangovers do and don’t happen. Find out why it’s actually not such a good thing when we aren’t experiencing hangovers.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without
0:15.2	judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.2	Hi, this is Annie Grace, author of this naked mind and I am answering readers questions.
0:33.2	And today I have a question from Holly.
0:34.9	Holly says, Hi, Annie, can you do a video about why when I was drinking a bottle of red wine
0:39.2	a night for decades?
0:40.5	I didn't even get the worst hang of our symptoms anymore most of the time.
0:44.2	I love the body chemistry aspects of how bad alcohol is for me and I'm sure it would be
0:48.3	very frightening to know why after years of drinking my poor abused body didn't even
0:53.4	react the same way.
0:54.4	You've changed my life but I still struggle with wanting a drink, not moderate drinking
0:58.4	once in a while.
0:59.4	Thank you so much.
1:00.9	So Holly, this is a great question and this was true for me as well.
1:04.3	Like when I was drinking a very regular amount of alcohol every single night because it
1:09.6	was just part of my routine, my hangovers went down a lot more like they were not as bad
1:14.9	when I was drinking, you know, saved the routine change shop and we had a really big night
1:19.3	out and instead of just drinking my normal, you know, bottle of plus of red wine, all
1:23.9	of a sudden we were doing my ties and all sorts of other stuff.
1:27.0	Then I'd wake up the next morning and feel really atrocious.
1:30.2	And I also correlated it to lots of different things like as long as I could drink wine
1:33.7	all night but then if I had a cocktail after the wine, I'd be really bad.
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