A Biologists St. Patricks Day Song

A 200yearold Irish classic Lyrics: In the year of our lord eighteen hundred and eleven On March the seventeenth day I will raise up a beer and I ll raise up a cheer For Saccharomyces cerevisiae Here s to brewers yeast, that humblest of all beast Producing carbon gas reducing acetaldehyde But my friends that isn t all it makes ethyl alcohol That is what the yeast excretes and that s what we imbibe Anaerobic respiration Also known as fermentation NADH oxidation Give me a beer CHORUS My intestinal wall absorbs that ethanol And soon it passes through my bloodbrain barrier There s a girl in the next seat who I didn t think that sweet But after a few drinks I want to marry her I guess it s not surprising, my dopamine is rising And my glutamate receptors are all shot I d surely be bemoaning all the extra serotonin But my judgement is impaired and my confidence is not Allosteric modul