And D-lactate. if you want an interesting calculation, works out how much
carbon dioxide you would produce if you fermented enough carbohydrate in
your gut to produce a blood alcohol concentration of 80 mg/100ml.......
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Nick
> Miller
> Sent: 08 September 1999 11:20
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> Subject: Re: Endogenous Alcohol synthesis
>
>
> Tim Reynolds writes:
>
> > One place I worked evaluated a man who claimed alcohol DH
> deficiency by an
> > alcohol tolerance test: similar to a glucose tolerance test but using
> > whisky instead of lucozade.
> >
> > The patient had been arrested for drink driving and claimed he made his
> > own alcohol in his gut: things went very well because the alcohol levels
> > in his blood increased as expected post-whisky, but contined to increase
> > until he was so drunk that he was unable to speak, let alone
> hide the hip
> > flask he had brought with him... -- Prof. Tim Reynolds, Professor of
> > Chemical Pathology, Queen's Hospital, Burton-on-Trent, UK.
>
> Just for interests' sake, there is such a thing as endogenous
> alcohol production: the yeast cells in the gut of patients suffering
> from Candida overgrowth secrete ethanol which they manufacture
> from glucose in the diet. This can be demonstrated by measuring
> ethanol in the blood of these individuals after a glucose load, at
> levels of about 1/1000th of the concentrations associated with
> drinking alcoholic beverages. Bacterial overgrowth produces a
> somewhat different pattern of alcohol production (butanol,
> propanols, etc.). This is one reason why these syndromes make
> patients feel so unwell.
>
> Nick Miller,
> London
>
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