[jmacusa]

Thanks ‘’mom’. But it does turn into sugar in the blood.. This is what doctors who have treated me told me. Believe me, I know what happens when people drink. I certainly used to know what happened to me. But happily that was 22 years ago this month. I don’t live that way anymore, one day at a time.

[aruanan]

Thanks ‘’mom’. But it does turn into sugar in the blood.. This is what doctors who have treated me told me. Believe me, I know what happens when people drink. I certainly used to know what happened to me. But happily that was 22 years ago this month. I don’t live that way anymore, one day at a time.

No, alcohol does not turn into sugar in the blood or anywhere else. Ethanol is converted by alcohol dehydrogenase into acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde is converted by acetaldehyde dehydrogenase into acetyl-CoA, which could enter the TCA cycle as do the products of glycolysis; however, when alcohol is being metabolized, NADH accumulates. As NADH accumulates the TCA cycle is slowed down so that pyruvate and acetyl-CoA build up. Excess acetyl-CoA then takes the route to fatty acid synthesis in the liver. That your doctors told you that alcohol turns into sugar in the blood underscores that many doctors are deficient in the field of human nutrition or that they forgot biochemistry.