....""" A 61-year-old man has taken the term "beer
belly" a little too literally after being
diagnosed with an infection that mimics the
signs of intoxication.
It all began when the man checked himself
into a Texas emergency room complaining of
dizziness, reports NPR.
A breath test soon revealed he was almost five
times over the legal limit, yet the man claimed
he hadn't taken a sip of (alcohol) that day.
Doctors were stumped, but put it down to the
man being a closet alcoholic.
But one team of medical professionals were
determined to solve the mystery.
"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."
Isolated in a hospital room for 24 hours,
Cordell and gastroenterologist Dr. Justin
McCarthy fed the man carbohydrate-rich
foods, with regular blood-alcohol checks along
the way.
After the series of tests conducted by the pair,
the man's intestinal tract was found to be
acting like his own brewery.
How?
Thanks to an overabundance of brewer's yeast
in the man's gut, that's how.
Or, an infection more commonly known as
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or "auto-brewery
syndrome", as reported in the International
Journal of Clinical Medicine.
Here's how it worked: when the man
consumed starch - like pasta, or fizzy drinks -
the yeast fermented the sugars into ethanol,
essentially turning him into a drunkard.""....Link.

omg. that is both funny and horrible lol

@mrb89: Lucky bast.ard....just eat spagetti and get lit lmao!

@WalkSoftly1: lmao. hmmm. maybe I should try that! since I never get drunk when I drink... LOL

Wonder if the cops would believe him when he's getting booked for d.u.i. "Honest occifer..it was the noodles"!

I just need to know the exact formula, so I can use it and patent it!

Gimme a double linguini on the rocks.

Headline: Man trashes bakery after gorging himself with cinnabuns.