Being a teetotaler, someone who chose to abstain from alcohol, does not guarantee that a person won’t have the kind of liver disease that heavy drinkers may suffer from. But why is that the case? One strange medical case may be able to get us closer to understanding what happens.
The patient, a 27-year-old man in China, was suffering from a form of liver inflammation called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, and had a rather strange history of becoming drunk without actually... drinking.
To get a high blood alcohol reading of somewhere around 400 milligrams per decilitre, most of us would need to down at least a dozen shots of hard liquor.
Not this guy. The subject of this case study only needed a good supply of fruit juice and a few plates of carbs.
Find out more about this guy over at ScienceAlert.
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