Even if you consider yourself a hardened guardian of a healthy lifestyle, it is likely that your liver has the ability to produce alcohol in fairly large quantities! By the way, such an unusual discovery recently made by Chinese scholars who are faced with a new kind of “intoxicating” microbes in the walls of the Capital Institute of Pediatrics China.
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Why do people get drunk?
Specific effects of alcohol on human behavior many of us know very well. However, barely half of all those who have ever experienced the influence of alcoholic beverages, could be why there are processes beginning to happen in the human body after drinking even a small amount of the liquid. A major role in starting the process of intoxication is released to ethanol, which is included in any alcoholic beverage. Once in the human body, ethanol is rapidly absorbed by the stomach, whence enters the blood stream. While in the blood stream, alcohol blocks the course of blood, leaving a temporary microthrombuses that lead to the onset of mild hypoxia.
Hypoxia is a lack of oxygen, in which the person begins to feel dizzy, lose control of body and mind. However, if a mild state of hypoxia will not be a big harm to human beings, its severe form can lead to detrimental and sometimes even irreversible consequences for the brain.
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Bacteria can cause the liver to produce alcohol
Despite the fact that intoxication occurs most often in the result of the decision of the person consumed some alcohol, sometimes a person is able to get drunk without their desire. A strange event occurred in one of the Chinese clinics, where was admitted for treatment of an unusual patient with so-called syndrome of auto-brewery (well, with humor doctors also sometimes is all right). Patients suffering from this disease, can greatly get drunk as a result of using any products containing in its composition the sugar. Thus, the concentration of alcohol in the blood of a young man, came for treatment in the Chinese Institute of Pediatrics, after eating their sugary foods could reach a record 400 milligrams per liter of blood.
The liver often consume alcohol person (left) and the liver of a healthy person (right)
Scientists believe that the cause of such a state could have special bacteria associated with the fungal infection. In other words, suffering from a symptom of “auto-brewery” might not guess that their gut is inhabited by microscopic creatures, able to synthesize large doses of ethanol. In addition, a similar condition can cause not only bacteria and fungi but also very specific diseases.
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Studies have shown that the presence in the body of the so-called non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in the first place damaging the liver, a symptom of unexpected intoxication much like alcohol. In addition, experts believe that what was previously considered extremely rare, the disease in recent time increases the scale of its impact. The reasons for the increase in the number of registered TB cases can be an overall lack of protein in the diet, exposure to diabetes and obesity, and the use of tools aimed at rapid weight loss.