2019-10-25, 10:00 AM
A Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Using Alcohol. It Turns Out, His Gut Brews Its Own Booze.
The devil on my shoulder wants to say "Imagine how much money you'd save".
Quote:For six long years, a man would experience mysterious bouts of drunkenness without ever drinking a drop of alcohol.
Eventually, he was diagnosed with a rare condition that filled his gut with booze.
The 46-year-old man had auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), a condition that causes bacteria in the gut to transform carbohydrates into intoxicating alcohol, according to a report of the man's case, published Aug. 5 in the journal BMJ Open Gastroenterology. The condition flares up when people consume sugary or carb-heavy foods and beverages, and throws them into a drunken haze just as if they'd knocked back too many beers, the man's doctors wrote.
The devil on my shoulder wants to say "Imagine how much money you'd save".