When your gut bacteria send you on a bender without you knowing.

That’s fascinating.

My late father was a severe, intractable alcoholic and his liver was in fantastic shape. (Spoiler: booze murdered his pancreas, though).

The gut biome is what makes us crave sugar, too. Those little beasties are quite adamant. The more you eat, the more they proliferate and demand more sugar. It is possible to defeat them, but it require vigilance.

Interestingly - the two direct family members who didn’t drink got stomach and liver cancer. The two who drank regularly never got cancer - yet. I honestly believe that alcohol can be an anti-carcinogen for certain genetic types. Similar results were true on the female side of my family for breast cancer - and there is now a study that says those women with BRCA2 actually have a DECREASING cancer risk based on increased alcohol intake.

I believe the long history of alcohol intake in Europe may have created genetic biases towards those whose bodies reacted positively to it.

Shouldn't it be gut bacteria sends not send?