Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Ever heard of it?

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"He would get drunk out of the blue — on a Sunday morning after being at church, or really, just anytime,"

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Other medical professionals chalked up the man's problem to "closet drinking.

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So the team searched the man's belongings for liquor and then isolated him in a hospital room for 24 hours. Throughout the day, he ate carbohydrate-rich foods, and the doctors periodically checked his blood for alcohol. At one point, it rose 0.12 percent.

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infection with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cordell says. So when he ate or drank a bunch of starch — a bagel, pasta or even a soda — the yeast fermented the sugars into ethanol, and he would get drunk. Essentially, he was brewing beer in his own gut

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