How menopause can lower your tolerance to alcohol

If you have started to notice that your tolerance for alcohol has changed during menopause, you're not alone.

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Dr Naomi Potter, menopause specialist and founder of Menopause Care, says: "It's something that women are a little bit sheepish to admit to, but it's still very common. It can present itself in a number of different ways, but most women report that their tolerance goes down."

But what are the main reasons behind this shift - and what can we do to manage it over the party season?

"As we get older, especially once you start hitting your 40s, pretty much everybody's metabolism slows," says Dr Alisha Esmail, GP and BMS-accredited menopause specialist at London Gynaecology. "So, the way your body processes any kind of input into the body changes, especially alcohol.