Not only that, but ingesting large amounts of live yeast can (does)cause explosive gastrointestinal results. A problem familiar to any home brewer that has consumed especially yeasty young beer.
If you get yeast in your intestines and you're taking antibiotics, you can get what's called Auto-Brewery Syndrome. The yeast in your intestines starts to ferment sugars and you get drunk all the time.
- people who know him personally say he's wasted ALL the time
- mechanism of action is supposed to be ADH that is added to the bakers' yeast
- microbiologists and chemists doubt it's going to work