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Longer reads on the science of tracking, from the team building Makuro.
How to log alcohol in Makuro (and why beer has no nutrition label)
Alcohol is the one calorie source with no label — but every can and menu prints its ABV, and that's enough. How Makuro's drink calculator works, from chūhai to soju.
Sleep and appetite: what the science actually says (and how Makuro uses it)
Short sleep makes you eat more, not burn less. Here's the evidence — and why Makuro shows sleep against your appetite instead of quietly changing your calorie target.
Why the calorie target from an online calculator stops being true
Static TDEE calculators are population averages frozen in time. Here's why your real energy needs drift within weeks — and what an adaptive target does differently.