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The Skeptics Guide #909 - Dec 10 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Autobrue-Er-Re Syndrome

You're constantly making alcohol out of the sugar in your gut, right? As long as you have it there. Now, you can fix it by having a special diet that doesn't include any food that the bacteria will metabolize would ferment. So typically you have to like completely exclude simple sugars from your diet and certain other kinds of carbohydrates. But if you did that, then it fixes it. And it's remarkably hard to change the bacterial number of your system.

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