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Why not? Ethanol kills competing bacteria and is only produced in microscopic quantities. Methanol is produced by a lot of bacteria, almost every human produce

• OutOfHere 9mo ago
  Isn't methanol a strong poison? I do not believe that any probiotic or native strains produce it. Chemically the problem with ethanol is that it's too close to methanol.
  • cluckindan 9mo ago
    From Wikipedia: ”Small amounts of methanol are present in normal, healthy human individuals. One study found a mean of 4.5 ppm in the exhaled breath of test subjects.[19] The mean endogenous methanol in humans of 0.45 g/d may be metabolized from pectin found in fruit; one kilogram of apple produces up to 1.4 g of pectin (0.6 g of methanol.)[20]” ”Ingestion of as little as 3.16 grams of methanol can cause irreversible optic nerve damage, and the oral LD50 for humans is estimated to be 56.2 grams.[66]” 19: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0967-3334/27/7/007 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0967-3334/27/7/00... 20: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-0277.1997.tb03862.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-0277.1997... 66: https://aoemj.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.1186/s40557-017-0197-5 https://aoemj.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.1186/s40557-017-01...
    • OutOfHere 9mo ago
      It doesn't mean it's safe to risk adding to the burden. The danger is that low-grade non-acute toxicity over the natural level could still be harmful over time. All it could take is one mutation.