AlcoScout
The pen name of the AlcoBalance team
AlcoScout is the pen name the AlcoBalance team writes under. We build an app that shows what alcohol is doing to you right now and when you'll be back to zero, so the blog sticks to the same question: what the research actually says about drinking, your body, and the next morning.
How we write
Every post starts from a published study and links to it. Numbers about blood alcohol come from the same model as our calculator. We use AI tools to find and summarize new research and to translate posts; translated versions are marked. Nothing here is medical advice.
Where the numbers come from
Latest posts
A wrist sensor read alcohol through the skin. On weekends, its peak said more about feeling drunk
A wrist alcohol sensor study of 50 young adults: peak level and speed of rise tracked craving and felt intoxication, more so on weekends.
When 0.0% beer got cheaper, first-time buyers more than doubled. Pricier regular beer barely helped
British and Spanish shopping data from 85,690 households shows how the price of 0.0% beer tracks with people trying it for the first time.
In lab animals, GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide cut drinking. Nobody is quite sure why
A Biological Psychiatry review of animal studies on GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide and alcohol: what dropped, the reward theory, and what could explain it.
What 14,284 Reddit comments reveal about drink spiking, and the help that fell short
A content analysis of 91 Reddit threads on drink spiking: where it happened, the lasting harm victims described, and why emergency responses fell short.
The most active adults had 27% fewer metabolic risk factors. Alcohol narrowed that edge.
A study of 8,813 US adults finds exercise tied to fewer metabolic risk factors, but its edge on metabolic syndrome held only at low drinking levels.
Alcohol tracker apps compared: journals, programs and real-time
Drinking apps answer three different questions: how much you drank, how to cut back, and when you'll be back to zero. Ten apps, sorted by job.