He didn't drink, but his body produced alcohol他没有喝酒，但他的身体会产生酒精When a man in North Carolina was pulled over on suspicion of driving drunk, police didn't believe him when he said he hadn't had any alcohol.

当一名北卡罗莱纳州的男子因涉嫌酒后驾车被警察拦下时，他说自己没有喝酒，但警察并不相信。

The man, in his late 40's at the time, refused to take a breathalyzer test and was taken to a hospital, where his initial blood alcohol level was found to be 0.

2% — about 2.

5 times the legal limit and the equivalent of consuming 10 drinks an hour.

Despite the man swearing up and down that he hadn't had anything to drink, doctors didn't believe him either.

这名男子当时年近40，拒绝接受酒精测试，然后被送往医院。

他最初血液中的酒精含量为0.

2%，约为法定上限的2.

5倍，相当于每小时喝10杯酒。

尽管这名男子坚持发誓说他没有喝任何东西，但医生们也不相信他。

But researchers at the Richmond University Medical Center in New York eventually discovered that the man was telling the truth.

He wasn't downing beers or cocktails — instead, there was yeast in his gut that was likely converting carbohydrates in the food he ate to alcohol.

但纽约里士满大学医学中心的研究人员最终发现，这名男子说的是实话。

他没有喝啤酒或鸡尾酒——相反，他的肠道里有酵母，可能会把他吃的食物中的碳水化合物转化成酒精。

In other words, his body was brewing beer.

换句话说，他的身体正在酿造啤酒。

The findings were reported in a study in BMJ Open Gastroenterology.

The man, whose identity has not been revealed, had a rarely diagnosed medical condition called auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), also known as gut fermentation syndrome.

这一发现发表在 BMJ开放胃肠病学　杂志上。

这名男子的身份尚未透露，他患有一种罕见的疾病，名为自动产酒精综合症”，也被称为肠道发酵综合症。

Gut fermentation syndrome occurs when yeast in the gastrointestinal tract causes the body to convert carbohydrates ingested through food into alcohol.

The process typically takes place in the upper GI tract, which includes the stomach and the first part of the small intestine.

肠道发酵综合症是由于胃肠道内的酵母导致人体将通过食物摄取的碳水化合物转化为酒精。

这个过程通常发生在上消化道，包括胃和小肠的上半段。

"These patients have the exact same implications of alcoholism: the smell, the breath, drowsiness, gait changes," Fahad Malik, the study's lead author and the chief internal medicine resident at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told CNN.

"They will present as someone who's intoxicated by alcohol, but the only difference here is that these patients can be treated by antifungal medications.

"该研究的主要作者、阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校的首席内科住院医师法哈德•马利克告诉CNN:这些患者都有着与酗酒完全相同的症状:气味、呼吸、困倦、步态变化。

”他们会表现得像喝醉了酒的人，但唯一的区别是这些病人可以通过抗真菌药物治疗。

”Researchers treated him with antifungal medications研究人员用抗真菌药物治疗他Things weren't the same for the man after he completed a course of antibiotics to treat a thumb injury.

His personality started to change, researchers wrote in the study, and he experienced episodes of depression, 'brain fog,' memory loss and aggressive behavior that was out of character for him.

这名男子在接受了治疗拇指损伤的抗生素医疗后，情况就不一样了。

研究人员在研究报告中写道，他的性格开始发生变化，他经历了抑郁、脑子模糊”、失忆以及与他性格不符的攻击行为。

Three years later, after his suspected drunk driving arrest, the man's aunt bought a breathalyzer to record his alcohol levels.

She had heard about a similar case that had been successfully treated by a doctor in Ohio and convinced her nephew to seek treatment there too.

三年后，在他涉嫌酒后驾车被捕后，他的阿姨买了一个酒精测试仪来记录他的酒精含量。

她听说在俄亥俄州的一位医生成功治疗了一个类似的病例，并说服她的侄子也去那里寻求治疗。

His basic lab tests turned out normal.

But doctors found two strains of yeast in his stool: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a yeast commonly used in beer brewing, winemaking and baking, as well as another fungus.

他基本的实验室测试结果正常。

但医生在他的粪便中发现了两种酵母:酿酒酵母，这种酵母用在啤酒酿造，酒精酿造和烘培中，以及另一种真菌。

The man was successfully treated at the Ohio clinic and told to stick to a strict carbohydrate-free diet along with some special supplements.

But after a few weeks, his symptoms started to flare up again.

This time, no treatment seemed to work despite visits to numerous medical professionals.

这名男子在俄亥俄州的诊所接受了成功的治疗，并被告知要坚持严格的无碳水化合物饮食和一些特殊补充剂。

但几周后，他的症状又开始发作。

这一次，尽管拜访了许多医学专家，但似乎没有任何治疗有效。

At one point, the man became so inebriated that he fell and experienced bleeding in his brain.

He was taken to a neurosurgical center where he spontaneously recovered in 10 days, researchers said.

有一次，这名男子酩酊大醉，以至于摔倒，脑部出血。

研究人员说，他被带到一家神经外科中心，在那里他进行10天的自行康复。

The condition is rarely diagnosed这种情况很少被诊断出来There have only been a few studies documenting cases of gut fermentation syndrome and the condition is rarely diagnosed, Malik said.

In the past, it's even been regarded as a myth.

马利克说，只有少数研究记录了肠道发酵综合症的病例，这种情况很少被诊断出来。

在过去，它甚至被当作一个谜。

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