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Reading on understanding how you drink.
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Why some people turn red drinking — flush response and intoxicationFlushing after a drink isn't willpower or tolerance — it's an inborn constitution. How the enzyme ALDH2 works, the three types, why the same amount hits people differently, and how flush relates to hangovers.
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How to work out how long alcohol takes to clear (and the catch)A two-step way to estimate the pure alcohol in your drinks and roughly how long it takes to break down, plus a free calculator and why you should not take the number at face value.
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Can you predict a hangover? How the Nomicho hangover-forecast app worksThe factors behind hangover severity, how the 1–5 hangover-forecast app predicts it from standard drinks, sleep, and constitution, and how it learns to fit you the more you use it — grounded in the research.
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How "how drunk am I right now?" gets predicted in real timeHow Nomicho predicts your current state — the pharmacokinetics, individual variation, intoxication stages, and why it shows a range.
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How long until alcohol wears off? Why there is no single numberStandard drinks, why metabolism varies between people, and how this relates to driving and hangovers — grounded in published research.
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A drinking tracker that isn't built around drinking lessMost drinking apps assume you want to cut down. Nomicho is for understanding how you drink instead — what it does, and how it differs.