he recommended a good diet exercise and occasional probiotics to achieve a healthy microbiome the woman was able to get the charges dismissed after her lawyer presented evidence by a doctor that she had the rare syndrome according to the ap as a persons bloodalcohol level rises he or she can exhibit all the same symptoms as someone who drank too much liquor including slurred words and confusion these observations show the importance of gastric microbiota or microbiome in altering functions peek said when yeast ingest a meal that has a high amount of carbohydrates they metabolize the carbohydrates into ethanol the syndrome causes substances in the gut to ferment food into ethanol thereby causing a persons bloodalcohol level to spike while most people will not end up with a tiny brewery in their gut peek said anyone can face an alteration of their micrombiome due to illness antibiotics or other conditions in one case the patient said that alcohol could be smelled on their breath peek said more study was needed to pinpoint the exact cause and find a cure that works for all patients yeast are normally in the gi tract and the commonality of all these case reports is they have an increased number of candida peek told abc news you can treat the patients with antifungal medications to reduce the load of candida in microbiota 151 the baffling case of a woman who was arrested for dwi without drinking has spotlighted a rare condition called autobrewery syndrome where the digestive system becomes its own tiny brewery while the story of foodturningtoalcohol in the body may seem like a convenient tale for the police doctors have found the rare condition in multiple patients you could recommend a low carbohydrate diet and in some cases that has worked to reverse the symptoms peek said stressing that these treatments have not been proven for every patient dr richard peek a professor of medicine and cancer biology at vanderbilt university medical center said the cause of the symptoms is not fully understood although there is one likely culprit peek said the alteration of the guts bacteria called the microbiome has farreaching effects with autobrewery syndrome being one of the most drastic results it really can regulate or cause disease such as irresistible bowel syndrome and its been linked to metabolic syndrome diabetes fatty liver