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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by yread on Friday April 25, 2014 @08:21AM (#7645939)
TLDR; of the thread:

- people who know him personally say he's wasted ALL the time

- mechanism of action is supposed to be ADH that is added to the bakers' yeast

- microbiologists and chemists doubt it's going to work

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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by ch4s3 on Friday April 25, 2014 @08:42AM (#7646028)
Not only that, but ingesting large amounts of live yeast can (does)cause explosive gastrointestinal results. A problem familiar to any home brewer that has consumed especially yeasty young beer.
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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by AUmrysh on Friday April 25, 2014 @10:06AM (#7646508)
If you get yeast in your intestines and you're taking antibiotics, you can get what's called Auto-Brewery Syndrome. The yeast in your intestines starts to ferment sugars and you get drunk all the time.
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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by pavel_lishin on Friday April 25, 2014 @10:31AM (#7646678)
How do antibiotics cause this? Do they kill off some of the intestinal flora that would normally digest the sugars?
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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by ch4s3 on Friday April 25, 2014 @10:31AM (#7646687)
Funny that you mention that. I sit 1 desk over from a doctor who brought that up as I was writing my earlier comment. We all had a good laugh.
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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by polarix on Friday April 25, 2014 @10:32AM (#7646697)
Why is taking antibiotics relevant to this effect?
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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by WalterSear on Friday April 25, 2014 @11:11AM (#7646993)
Kill off competitive gut flora, making ecological room.
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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by INTPenis on Friday April 25, 2014 @09:49AM (#7646410)
From what I've read ADH is something yeast has evolved with. It's not added to yeast.
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