Those effects increase as we get older.

How alcohol impacts your health as you age depends on how often and how much you drink.

Learn more about the connection between alcohol and aging below.

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And if youre a heavy drinker, the years you spend drinking start to add up as you age.

It is entirely due to dehydration.

This is why you may have noticed thatalcohol increases heart rate, too.

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40s

Your forties is when youll start to really see the impacts of alcohol on your face.

This is the age when our face begins to show our age, says Dr. Sonpal.

Many people believe thatdrinking helps you sleep, but in actuality, it prevents you from getting deep sleep.

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So you may fall asleep, but you wont get restful sleep.

Therefore hangovers feel even worse at this age.

Alcohol competes with medicine processed by your liver and can cause lots of interactions with alcohol.

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As a result, those medicines are not broken down and their effects last a lot longer.

Drinking and being unsteady on your feet from alcohol increases the risk of accidents.

Combine that will alcohol and the chances go up even more.

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