How long does a hangover last in your 30s

The first thing you wonder after waking up after a Rough Night-style evening: Uh, how long does a hangover last again? (And why did I drink last night?!)

Typically, hangovers only last the morning (like, until you finally get around to eating breakfast)—at most 24 hours.

But sometimes, those after-effects of a night of drinking stick around way past their welcome—like the dreaded two-day hangover which makes you realize, oh yeah, you're not in college anymore.

Just wondering...why are hangovers even a thing?

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“Hangovers are somewhat poorly understood from a medical standpoint,” says Fred Goggans, MD, the medical director of McLean Hospital’s McLean Borden Cottage in Camden, Maine. For the most part, the symptoms are considered a form of short-term withdrawal and tend to be time-limited.

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Your liver also has to work overtime to process alcohol. "The liver needs to first break down alcohol into acetaldehyde, which is toxic," says Anne Boris, RD, LDN, of Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital.

"Then,

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