California DUI Defense and Low Carb Diets
Low carb diets can inject extra alcohol into breath samples when DUI suspects are being tested... often leading to wrongful DUI arrests and charges.
This relationship between California DUI Defense and low carb diets surprises many people... but it certainly exists. Here's why.
Our Los Angeles DUI Lawyers observe that the majority of California DUI arrests and prosecutions depend on evidence of a person's blood alcohol content (BAC). To produce this evidence, law enforcement agencies almost always use machines that convert a measurement of breath alcohol content into a BAC based on a variety of electromagnetic technologies.
A diet sufficiently low in carbohydrate foods causes a person's digestive system to enter a process called "ketosis." Ketosis produces a natural form of alcohol in a person's stomach that is ultimately quite different from the kind of alcohol people drink.
Be aware, however, the alcohol breath tests used by law enforcement cannot tell these different forms of alcohol apart. If your system is in "ketosis," natural alcohol traces are likely to come out in your DUI breath sample and produce a false result.
Bottom-line: there are innumerable reasons why people are wrongfully arrested and charged with DUI everyday. This is just one example. Yet the relationship between California DUI defense and low carb diets is not very well known. That's why the first step we take in every California DUI case is to perform a full client interview so we can find out what will help a client as early as possible.