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"The average person has enough of these bacteria in their gut to have a natural blood alcohol level - even after zero drinks - of about 0.1 mg/dl. Under pessimi
by Yenrabbit 3y ago
"The average person has enough of these bacteria in their gut to have a natural blood alcohol level - even after zero drinks - of about 0.1 mg/dl. Under pessimistic assumptions, BCS3-L1 will add another 0.2 mg/dl, bringing the total to 0.3. This is still a pretty normal number that some people have naturally (it would bring the average customer from the ~50th to the ~80th percentile of natural blood alcohol). It’s also far from the usual threshold for feeling tipsy (30 mg/dl) or too drunk to drive (80 mg/dl).
Under more realistic assumptions, the amount of alcohol produced by BCS3-L1 probably isn’t significant even by the very low standards of natural blood alcohol concentrations."
(From https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/defying-cavity-lantern-bioworks-faq https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/defying-cavity-lantern-biow...)
- 7e 3y agoFrom the source: "The endogenous alcohol concentration in the blood of sober people is 0.39 ± 0.45 μg/mL or 0.039 mg/dL (Antoschechkin, 2001)." Further down: 5. Then you’ll end up with 11mg/5L of blood. This is, in more familiar units, 0.22 mg per dL 0.22 / 0.039 = a *5.6x* increase in chronic blood alcohol concentration, albeit under pessimistic assumptions [1]. No thank you. There's no telling what that will do to a person over 50 years. [1] I'm not sure it's so pessimistic. This number comes from culture on blood agar, which isn't exactly the sugar level of a western diet. Blood agar contains almost no sugar.