It turns out you can brew beer in your own body. All you need is an incredibly rare yeast infection.
After a 61-year-old man recently stumbled into a Texas hospital complaining of dizziness, befuddled doctors performed a standard blood alcohol test and found that his levels had reached 0.37 percent – five time the legal driving limit in his resident Texas.
In case where the term "beer belly" became a little too literal, the man was diagnosed with an infection that mimics the signs of intoxication.
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An overabundance of brewer's yeast in the man's gut triggered an infection more commonly known as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or "auto-brewery syndrome", as reported in the International Journal of Clinical Medicine.