Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Getting Drunk on Carbs

Auto-brewery syndrome is when your gut literally ferments carbs into alcohol and gets you drunk

without drinking a goddamn drop. Here's the fucked up science: some people have an overgrowth

of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, that's brewer's yeast, or Candida species

living in their intestines. When they eat carbs like bread or pasta, these yeast bastards

ferment that shit into pure ethanol, just like brewing beer. The alcohol gets

absorbed into their bloodstream and BAM, they're fucking hammered.

People with this syndrome can blow point-zero-eight on a breathalyzer after eating a bagel.

They get arrested for drunk driving, suffer social consequences, and nobody believes them.