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I discovered a lot of stuff that surprised me (in academic journal papers)
From memory:
Basically, there are 2 stages to metabolising ethanol:
1. conversion to acetaldehyde,
2 then the conversion of that to acetic acid
Some people are very good at #1, and poor at #2, some vice versa, some good at both
to keep this post short, this is why many Chinese people get drunk and ill on half a pint of beer.
the ratios between #1 and #2 differ massively. affecting your ability to expel alcohol without suffering a toxic reaction
in addition, heavy drinkers switch to another path of metabolism that is 4 or 5 times faster, and generates heat. I forget the name of it, I can look this up if anyone cares
Since that's a change for you, maybe it's because your tolerance is down or because your body has lost its capability
I'd ask other people too, but 4 drinks seems too little to get hangovers if you didn't have them before.
You could get a liver function test done I guess, I don't really know what to advise. I've heard people complain that if they admit to drinking a bottle of wine to a GP they get labelled as alcoholic, so it's hard to know what to advise.
The ethanol metabolic path has lots of things that could vary for someone, so not easy to predict.
Speaking personally, I think my alcohol tolerance has probably gone down 25% at 50+
You'd probably have to evaluate if your change looks medically significant. I know women in their 50s drinking 2 bottles of wine a night with no obvious effects, and some people younger who get very tipsy on just half a bottle, it's hard to make generalisations
Because my partner and I are cutting down, she hadn't eaten (saving her calories for prosecco). So I didn't eat either. Consequently I span out like a twat when we got home. I must have picked up a flu virus in the christmas market, I had a rough hangover feeling all the way until monday afternoon. And then the Tuesday cycle I to work hit me hard, I felt super feeble and had no energy. I do need to start measuring my spirits properly as I'm eye balling them atm, and my measurements are pretty much half a tulip glass.
I never drink through the week so I guess that gives my body enough time to recover.
Surprisingly though, the data I saw said that very heavy drinkers (1+ bottles of spirits per day) were only 50% likely to get serious cirrhosis after 20 years of drinking at that rate, so it's clearly more complicated than everyone having the same outcome
You may not drink through the week but you're more than making up for it on the 2/3 days you do,
Sorry for the lecture but as an alcohol worker for nearly 20 years I saw this all to often, I would rather be physically addicted to heroin than alcohol as its easier to come off and less damaging belive it or not