Gel could be of interest to people who want to reduce harmful impacts without giving up alcohol completely, researchers suggest ...

Drink a couple glasses of wine and feel only half as intoxicated as you normally would — and sustain less damage to your ...

When ingested, it prevents alcohol from entering the blood and stops the compound acetaldehyde from accumulating. A toxic ...

This is where most of the alcohol is broken down. The liver contains enzymes that convert alcohol into various substances, notably acetaldehyde and acetic acid. Acetaldehyde is toxic and destroys ...

“The gel shifts the breakdown of alcohol from the liver to the digestive tract. In contrast to when alcohol is metabolised in the liver, no harmful acetaldehyde is produced as an intermediate product, ...