On Tuesday, a Belgian brewer was cleared of drink-driving after a court accepted he had a rare condition meaning his own body produced alcohol. The 40-year-old suffered from Auto-Brewery Syndrome (ABS ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego, Mass General Brigham, and their colleagues have identified specific gut bacteria and metabolic pathways that drive alcohol production in patients ...

The syndrome occurs when a patient’s gut gets colonized by a fungus that metabolizes carbohydrates and sugar into alcohol through fermentation, the doctor told Fox News Digital. Before diagnosing a ...

How can someone have alcohol intoxication without consuming alcohol? Auto-brewery syndrome, a rare condition in which gut fungi create alcohol through fermentation, is described in a case study in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is that person a secret alcoholic or is it perhaps auto-brewery syndrome? Researchers are shedding light on a rare condition where ...

When Mark Mongiardo was in his second year of teaching, someone commented that he smelled of alcohol. He felt surprised because he hadn't had any alcoholic beverages and wouldn't risk his career by ...

Have you ever felt drunk to the extent that you cannot stand or sit straight, slur while talking, and feel wasted and absolutely smashed – despite not even taking a drop of alcohol? According to ...

Alcohol, and its effects post-ingestion, can be enjoyable for many people given the right time, place, and amount. That being said, pretty much everyone can agree that suddenly feeling drunk after ...

A Belgian man has been acquitted of drunk driving charges due to a rare condition known as auto-brewery syndrome. Initially identified in Japan nearly 70 years ago, this has significantly altered the ...

Nature is the biggest magician of them all. It has existed before even humans did and everything that we have now is in one or more ways connected to it, even health conditions. While science has ...

On December 9, 2015, a town judge in the Buffalo suburb of Hamburg dismissed drunk driving charges against a woman who had been arrested while driving with a blood-alcohol level four times the legal ...