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Doctors Used a Poop Transplant to Cure a Man Whose Gut Was Making Him Drunk – ScienceAlert
A rare syndrome in which the human gut brews its own alcohol has been successfully treated with a poop transplant when nothing else was working, marking the first such case in medical literature.
A rare syndrome in which the human gut brews its own alcohol has been successfully treated with a poop transplant when nothing else was working, marking the first such case in medical literature.
Known as auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), this extraordinary condition can leave patients feeling downright intoxicated, even if they haven’t had a single thing to drink.
ABS is caused by microorganisms – usually fungi – in the gut feasting on recently-eaten carbohydrates to produce their own brew of alco…
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