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Fermentation occurs because sugar contains energy. Microorganizism can break down sugars and extract some of the energy using fermentation in the absence of oxygen. Your body can do the same thing.

First a carbon dioxide compound is removed from the sugar leaving a radical. A microorganiizism turns the radical into alcohol. Your body combines the radical with oxygen producing additional energy.

Sometimes something goes very wrong in your body. The radical causes damage until it is stopped by a molecule of unsaturated fat.

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