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Can Your Body Manufacture Alcohol??.The ?Auto-Brewery Syndrome?

By Lawrence Taylor

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Can alcohol be created by the human body itself — without any drinking? Apparently so. In an interesting scientific article, two physicians at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore reported that they detected the odor of beer in three of their patients. This was in an isolated hospital setting; there was no access to alcoholic beverages. The doctors had urine samples taken and analyzed by gas chromatography. Result? All three showed the presence of alcohol in their systems. Two of these were then tested for actual blood-alcohol concentration (BAC). One showed a BAC of .043%. The other was .121% — or well over the legal limit for DUI! "The presence of alcohol in human specimens containing glucose and yeast should come as no surprise," the two physicians wrote...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on April 03, 2010 (boomark / email).

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