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Drunk? It’s all in the genes

Oct 31 2010 by Babette Decker, Sunday Sun

I’M not drunk, m’lud, it’s just in the genes.

I had to laugh when I learned that a gene that helps drink go to your head has been discovered by scientists.

The gene apparently provides coded instructions for making an enzyme that breaks down alcohol.

That’s all a bit geeky for me but, if I have got it right, it means certain people have genes that makes them drunk quicker than the rest of us.

It is, so I have been told, nature’s way of protecting against the effects of alcoholism.

Now that’s what I call a cheap night out when one or two drinks is classed as a binge!

And a great excuse when you have to appear before the magistrates in the morning.

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