Scientists created strains of probiotic bacteria that produce an enzyme meant to help the body break down alcohol faster.
Fun as the acute effects of ingesting alcohol can be, too much can be dangerous, even deadly. To protect us, the liver breaks alcohol down into less toxic byproducts using enzymes called alcohol dehydrogenases . Studies have found that there’s a particular variant of thethat seems to be especially potent at breaking down alcohol. This variant is more commonly found in Asian and Polynesian populations of people, and it might help explain why these groups tend to drink less on average.
The team confirmed that the bacteria produced ADH1B, stuffed it into a capsule tough enough to survive stomach acid, and calculated a dose that was most likely to consistently affect alcohol breakdown in their lab mice. Then they fed the mice the probiotic about an hour before trying to booze them up.
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