|
Ganzig
It's for the street cred


Registered: 11/29/06
Posts: 8,206
Loc: Oregon
|
Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery
#18871616 - 09/21/13 11:05 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
I thought this was crazy and had to share with all.
linky
"This medical case may give a whole new meaning to the phrase "beer gut."
A 61-year-old man — with a history of home-brewing — stumbled into a Texas emergency room complaining of dizziness. Nurses ran a Breathalyzer test. And sure enough, the man's blood alcohol concentration was a whopping 0.37 percent, or almost five times the legal limit for driving in Texas.
There was just one hitch: The man said that he hadn't touched a drop of alcohol that day.
"He would get drunk out of the blue — on a Sunday morning after being at church, or really, just anytime," says Barabara Cordell, the dean of nursing at Panola College in Carthage, Texas. "His wife was so dismayed about it that she even bought a Breathalyzer."
Fungi (cyan) surround a human hair within the skin. A study in the journal Nature shows the population of fungi on human skin is more diverse that previously thought. Shots - Health News Research Reveals Yeasty Beasts Living On Our Skin Dreaming of slimming gut microbes? Shots - Health News How A Change In Gut Microbes Can Affect Weight Other medical professionals chalked up the man's problem to "closet drinking." But Cordell and Dr. Justin McCarthy, a gastroenterologist in Lubbock, wanted to figure out what was really going on.
So the team searched the man's belongings for liquor and then isolated him in a hospital room for 24 hours. Throughout the day, he ate carbohydrate-rich foods, and the doctors periodically checked his blood for alcohol. At one point, it rose 0.12 percent.
Eventually, McCarthy and Cordell pinpointed the culprit: an overabundance of brewer's yeast in his gut.
That's right, folks. According to Cordell and McCarthy, the man's intestinal tract was acting like his own internal brewery.
The patient had an infection with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cordell says. So when he ate or drank a bunch of starch — a bagel, pasta or even a soda — the yeast fermented the sugars into ethanol, and he would get drunk. Essentially, he was brewing beer in his own gut. Cordell and McCarthy reported the case of "auto-brewery syndrome" a few months ago in the International Journal of Clinical Medicine.
When we first read the case study, we were more than a little skeptical. It sounded crazy, a phenomenon akin to spontaneous combustion. I mean, come on: Could a person's gut really generate that much ethanol?
Brewer's yeast is in a whole host of foods, including breads, wine and, of course, beer (hence, the name). The critters usually don't do any harm. They just flow right through us. Some people even take Saccharomyces as a probiotic supplement.
But it turns out that in rare cases, the yeasty beasts can indeed take up long-term residency in the gut and possibly cause problems, says Dr. Joseph Heitman, a microbiologist at Duke University.
"Researchers have shown unequivocally that Saccharomyces can grow in the intestinal tract," Heitman tells The Salt. "But it's still unclear whether it's associated with any disease" — or whether it could make someone drunk from the gut up.
We dug around the scant literature on auto-brewery syndrome and uncovered a handful of cases similar to the one in Texas. Some reports in Japan date back to the 1970s. In most instances, the infections occurred after a person took antibiotics — which can wipe out the bacteria in the gut, making room for fungi like yeast to flourish — or had another illness that suppresses their immune system.
Still, such case reports remain extremely rare. Heitman says he had never heard of auto-brewery syndrome until we called him up. "It sounds interesting," he says. But he's also cautious.
"The problem with a case report," he notes, "is that it's just one person. It's not a controlled clinical study.""
--------------------
I must keep reminding myself of this. I must keep reminding myself of this. I must keep reminding myself of this. I must keep reminding myself of this.
|
Mush4Brains
LOOL HACKED!!!

Registered: 07/31/13
Posts: 4,419
Last seen: 9 years, 2 months
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: Ganzig]
#18871621 - 09/21/13 11:07 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
How do I get that.
|
Ganzig
It's for the street cred


Registered: 11/29/06
Posts: 8,206
Loc: Oregon
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: Mush4Brains]
#18871645 - 09/21/13 11:12 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Take antibiotics for two weeks then pitch some yeast into your gut!
--------------------
I must keep reminding myself of this. I must keep reminding myself of this. I must keep reminding myself of this. I must keep reminding myself of this.
|
Snotfish
Striped


Registered: 02/27/10
Posts: 2,082
Loc:
Last seen: 11 months, 22 days
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: Ganzig]
#18871662 - 09/21/13 11:18 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Why is he ingesting yeast in the first place? Isn't beer supposed to be separated from that during the whole brewing process?
--------------------
|
psi
TOAST N' JAM


Registered: 09/05/99
Posts: 31,456
Loc: 613
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: Snotfish]
#18871669 - 09/21/13 11:20 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
I would have thought that it would be too acidic in your stomach for the yeast to survive.
|
cgsjames
I eat dumbbells



Registered: 05/18/13
Posts: 178
Last seen: 12 days, 3 hours
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: psi]
#18871734 - 09/21/13 11:38 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
So he is drunk indefinitely?
-------------------- What you eat don't make me shit and who you fuck don't make me come.
|
psi
TOAST N' JAM


Registered: 09/05/99
Posts: 31,456
Loc: 613
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: cgsjames]
#18871772 - 09/21/13 11:48 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
I guess if he completely stopped eating carbs for a while they would just die off.
|
s240779

Registered: 12/07/10
Posts: 12,880
Last seen: 2 months, 9 days
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: Snotfish]
#18871852 - 09/21/13 12:06 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Dankfish said: Why is he ingesting yeast in the first place? Isn't beer supposed to be separated from that during the whole brewing process?
No.
|
ganjfather
uncle randy



Registered: 08/06/09
Posts: 6,342
Loc:
Last seen: 3 years, 6 months
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: s240779]
#18871915 - 09/21/13 12:23 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Da2ra said:
Quote:
Dankfish said: Why is he ingesting yeast in the first place? Isn't beer supposed to be separated from that during the whole brewing process?
No.
The yeast cake (dead yeast) falls to the bottom of the fermenter and you separate the beer and the cake before bottling. Some people don't strain their beer before bottling, though, and it leaves little floaters of yeast (dead & alive) in the beer. I always strain my brew, I don't like the floaties. Homeboy probably never strains his brew and if he did, he probably wouldn't have a fermenter for a stomach.
|
s240779

Registered: 12/07/10
Posts: 12,880
Last seen: 2 months, 9 days
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: ganjfather]
#18871976 - 09/21/13 12:39 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Isn't there still yeast in the beer after those floaters are filtered out? Lost of microscopic yeast...
|
Ganzig
It's for the street cred


Registered: 11/29/06
Posts: 8,206
Loc: Oregon
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: s240779]
#18872074 - 09/21/13 01:04 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Yeah. Even after a clean re-racking if the beer there will be yeast. You would have to pasteurize the beer to kill all yeast.
--------------------
I must keep reminding myself of this. I must keep reminding myself of this. I must keep reminding myself of this. I must keep reminding myself of this.
|
Ganzig
It's for the street cred


Registered: 11/29/06
Posts: 8,206
Loc: Oregon
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: Ganzig]
#18872080 - 09/21/13 01:05 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
The yeast is what carbonated the beer in the bottle. You want yeast in the beer.
--------------------
I must keep reminding myself of this. I must keep reminding myself of this. I must keep reminding myself of this. I must keep reminding myself of this.
|
ganjfather
uncle randy



Registered: 08/06/09
Posts: 6,342
Loc:
Last seen: 3 years, 6 months
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: Ganzig]
#18872200 - 09/21/13 01:32 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
It's the yeast eating the sugar and putting out co2 that carbonates the beer while in the bottle. And yes, there will be a tiny amount of yeast left even after filtering, but not enough to turn your stomach into a fermenter. This dude was probably pitching excess yeast and not filtering at all.
|
Mush4Brains
LOOL HACKED!!!

Registered: 07/31/13
Posts: 4,419
Last seen: 9 years, 2 months
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: ganjfather]
#18872463 - 09/21/13 02:26 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
So all I have to do is eat yeast and bread and I can be drunk 24/7?
|
ganjfather
uncle randy



Registered: 08/06/09
Posts: 6,342
Loc:
Last seen: 3 years, 6 months
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: Mush4Brains]
#18874119 - 09/21/13 10:26 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
It appears so.
|
Oeric McKenna
LIFE CAPS


Registered: 06/15/12
Posts: 5,318
Loc: Babylon
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: ganjfather]
#18874129 - 09/21/13 10:30 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Is beer yeast seperated?
Not always. The best beers contain lots. It replenishes b12 and prevents hangovers. Oddly enough, alcohol which the yeast excretes, depletes B12. Its part of this grand mystery we're all involved in.
the latest brewery to gain my respect by brewing kickassery, Goose Island Try their nut brown ale & thank me later...
|
s240779

Registered: 12/07/10
Posts: 12,880
Last seen: 2 months, 9 days
|
Re: Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Newest/Hipest new micro-brewery [Re: Oeric McKenna]
#18874785 - 09/22/13 06:10 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Oeric McKenna said: It replenishes b12 and prevents hangovers.
Beer, tofu, sauerkraut and pickled vegetables contain vitamin B12. Yet, these products can contribute only little amounts to the daily needs of vitamin B12.
http://www.helium.com/items/1950632-vitamin-b12-vitamin-b12-info-vitamin-b12-sources-foods-containing-vitamin-b12-vitamin-b12-tips
|
|