Body Boozer: Man With ‘Auto-Brewery Syndrome’ Gets Drunk Without Drinking

What type of drunk are you? Happy, sad, loud, quiet, or the all-too-common crying type--it doesn't matter. You'll be entertained (or jealous, even) over what this 61-year-old man has: an over-abudance of yeast in his intestines. Specifically, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, aka the yeast that's used to brew beer.

It clearly wasn't vertigo when he went to the emergency room complaining of dizziness. It was because he was drunk and had a blood alcohol content that was five times over the legal limit!

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.

The infection is aptly dubbed 'auto-brewery syndrome.' Now who wants to get infected?