Current state of wine market

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Here’s a post describing one of the products

New gel makes alcohol 50% less toxic

A study in the journal Nature describes a gel which taken orally catalyzes the breakdown of alcohol into relatively harmless acetic acid in the gut. Only 45% of alcohol enters the bloodstream. The liver converts much of the alcohol we drink into acetaldehyde, which is quite toxic, so it sounds like both the intoxicating properties and harmful effects of alcohol could be decreased by a factor of more than two. I’m just a dumb-ass orthopedist, so maybe some of you real scientists can read and int…