> The patient had an infection with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cordell says. So when he ate or drank a bunch of starch — a bagel, pasta or even a soda — the yeast fermented the sugars into ethanol, and he would get drunk. Essentially, he was brewing beer in his own gut. Cordell and McCarthy reported the case of "auto-brewery syndrome" a few months ago in the International Journal of Clinical Medicine.
Evolution, unfortunately, ruins all the fun. Producing all those proteins to make your drug of choice puts a large burden on the cells - any of them that lose those genes to mutations in the DNA will be able to grow slightly faster and eventually take over the entire culture.
How do you mean? Lysergic acid is a naturally occurring biogenic substance.