Time & Metabolism

Your liver sets the pace for falling BAC: on average it drops by about 0.015% each hour, and only time brings it down. How long to sober up turns peaks from 0.02% to 0.20% into hours at slow, average and fast clearance, with a clock that starts at the peak. How to sober up fast checks coffee and other common tricks against the research, one myth per row. The detection guide sets out the window of each kind of test, with its cutoff and its source.

  • How Long Does Alcohol Stay in Your System

    How long does alcohol stay in your system? Hours in blood, days in urine and weeks in hair, with the lab cutoff behind each test window.

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  • How Long Does It Take to Sober Up?

    How long to sober up from a peak between 0.02% and 0.20% BAC in hours at three clearance rates, with the clock started at the peak and not the last drink.

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  • How to Sober Up Fast

    How to sober up fast comes down to a liver pace of about 0.015% BAC an hour, so coffee, cold showers and water cannot shorten the wait.

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