Yes, yeast can produce more alcohol in the gut from sugar in a process called auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), or gut fermentation syndrome. In this condition, a person’s gut has an overgrowth of fermenting microorganisms, like the yeast Saccharomyces and Candida, which can convert sugars from food into ethanol, causing alcohol intoxication without drinking.
I drank my latest batch of home-brew - hard pear juice cider from active baking yeast. I tried to "rack" off the yeast but the pear juice seemed to hold onto the yeast more than usual. So I've been gassing out CO2 for the past few years - and I realized that means the yeast must been feeding off sugars in my body, producing both co2 and ethanol.
Active baking yeastdoes not live long in the gut; it is rapidly destroyed by stomach acid. For a healthy person, the yeast cells will not survive the stomach and will pass through the digestive system, similar to any other food particle.
Yeah the gas is getting better so it must be clearing through. I could feel a slight ongoing buzz from the alcohol being produced from the CO2 gas. hahahaha. Kind of weird.
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