Ask AI Mark explains why your stomach bloats after eating. Gut bacteria ferment food and produce gas, sometimes even alcohol. This can trigger inflammation that damages your liver over time.
Fatty liver, typically, like you said, we used to see this in patients who were drinking alcohol. What we're now finding out is that fatty liver is the thing that is being driven by disruption of the gut microbiome. So what's happening is when you destroy the protective mucus lining of the gut, some of those bad bacteria get into the body, get into the circulation, they go into the liver and causes systemic inflammation, which in turn causes fatty liver. And, there was just I don't know if you saw the recent paper about this, about what is termed non-alcoholic fatty liver is actually from alcohol produced by gut bacteria.
Yeah.
So, some bacteria will actually produce alcohol which in turn poisons the liver.
It ferments, right?
It ferments.
It's just like, you know, you get this bloating food baby. That's actually your bacteria fermenting the food you're eating and certain foods are more fermentable like starches and sugars.
Exactly.
Yeah. we actually have seen cases of patients who literally had elevated blood alcohol levels.
Yeah, auto-brewery.
Syndrome. From the bacteria in their gut. Yeah. And they literally got pulled over and found, you know, they.
Had, like, for.
Drunk driving. Exactly.
And it actually, the auto-brewery syndrome is, I've had a couple of patients with that, and they, they typically that's usually been attributed to yeast overgrowth, but there also are cases specifically with bacteria that can also produce alcohol. I mean, you're basically, it's like a, it's a brewery in your body.
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