Judi Love was left wondering if she was 'going to survive the night' after an incident involving a rather strong drink on a night out while working in Scotland.
Judi Love has revealed she cut alcohol out of her diet after a traumatic incident while presenting a show. The 44-year-old Loose Women star revealed she was in Scotland for the Edinburgh Fringe when she was offered a spicy margarita cocktail.
However, Judi joked the decision left her wondering whether she would “survive the night”. Judi says she wasn’t sure if it’s simply a sign of ageing, but says she felt she wasn’t handling the drink as well as she once did. Speaking on The Dish with Waitrose podcast, she said: “I went to the Edinburgh Fringe to host a show and my gosh, the Scot’s hands are heavy.
"I had a spicy margarita out there and I thought, 'I don’t know if I’m going to survive the night'. “My kidneys, my livers, everything was talking to me like ‘hey babes, call your people, tell them you love them.’
"I was just like, ‘I don’t know if it’s the age or what, but this body is not taking alcohol like how it used to’.” Judi says the incident prompted her to “cut down” on her alcohol intake.
According to the US Institute of Ageing, our tolerance to alcohol can reduce as we get older. Dr Federica Amati, from nutrition brand ZOE, says the way we drink alcohol should adjust as we get older.
Speaking to The Telegraph, she said: “Just because we are incredibly flexible in our 20s, does not mean that we can continue that kind of drinking in our 30s, 40s and 50s, and expect to have no consequence. We need to understand that we evolve and change with age.”
She claims people are “metabolically flexible” during their late 20s. This means the body is able to ramp up the enzyme production needed to combat the effects of alcohol.
Dr Amati also says the body is more capable of removing the harmful by-products of alcohol when we’re in our 20s. The Harvard Medical School says people have a higher blood alcohol volume as they get older.
It says: “After drinking the same amount of alcohol, older people have higher blood alcohol concentrations than younger people because of such changes as a lower volume of total body water and slower rates of elimination of alcohol from the body.”
