How the Microbiome Can Create a Microbrewery

Gut microbes can get you drunk and damage your liver

Bill Sullivan Jr
Read or Die — HQ
4 min readMay 3, 2024

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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Imagine you’re a police officer. You spot a car that’s swerving all over the road. You pull the driver over, and they’re clearly intoxicated. With slurred speech, they swear that they haven’t had a drop of alcohol all day. Would you believe them?

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Bill Sullivan Jr
Read or Die — HQ

Bill Sullivan is the author of “Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are” (National Geographic Books).