Article On How Auto-brewery System (ABS), Aka Gut Fermentation Syndrome Can Cause DUI

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Gut fermentation system occurs when yeast in the gastrointestinal tract causes the body to convert carbohydrates ingested through food into alcohol. The process typically takes place in the upper GI tract, which includes the stomach and the first part of the small intestine.

“These patients have the exact same implications of alcoholism: the smell, the breath, drowsiness, gait changes,” Fahad Malik, the study’s lead author and the chief internal medicine resident at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told CNN. “They will present as someone who’s intoxicated by alcohol, but the only difference here is that these patients can be treated by antifungal medications.”

No one believed him when he said he hadn’t been drinking. Then researchers found his body was producing alcohol
 
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