Nothing to do with drugs 237SJ. Metabolic Pathways in simple terms resemble flowcharts. The tinkering merely involves changing the route of the pathways around the liver, which in turn means that some substances are never formed and new substances will come into existence. I eliminated the formation of toxic substances within the pathways by going back to the point at which they were formed as a result of alcohol and effectively modifying the pathway to produce non-toxic substances.
At the time, I was a senior lecturer in human biochemistry and I submitted the article as a bit of a joke. I was amazed that I had the response that I did over it and it seemed no one else had thought of it.