Woman Denied Liver Transplant Due to Alcoholism—but She Hadn’t Had a Drop to Drink

Something Brewing...

It turns out the 46-year-old man’s body had begun to produce alcohol on its own. Whenever Tom consumed carbohydrates, his body brewed alcohol in his gut. It may sound funny, but for people like Tom, auto-brewery syndrome is no laughing matter.

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