Man’s body brews its own beer, gets him drunk without drinking

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    Add another ability to the human digestive system: It can brew its own beer.

    Or at least it did in the case of a 61-year-old Texas husband, according to a report from NPR.

    He’d go to church, for example, and come out dizzy. His wife got so suspicious, she bought a Breathalyzer. He wound up at a hospital, where his blood alcohol was found to be five times the Texas legal limit.

    To determine if he was surreptitiously nipping, he was confined for a day without any access to alcohol – and still wound up drunk.


    Apparently, the man had done some home-brewing and somehow his guts collected enough brewer’s yeast to turn ingested carbs into firewater.

    Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/health...unk_without_drinking.html#QjPsbS7qUSkQ3Spe.99
     

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