Zbiotics targets acetaldehyde, not ethyl alcohol. From the article:

> 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,” explains Professor Raffaele Mezzenga from the Laboratory of Food & Soft Materials at ETH Zurich. Acetaldehyde is toxic and is responsible for many health problems caused by excessive alcohol consumption.

Using this gel would manifest as simply not being as intoxicated, whereas Zbiotics is intended to allow for intoxication but prevent the hangover afterwards.

i meant conceptually even if mechanism of action is different.

Sure, if the difference between being intoxicated and not is merely conceptual to you. For me it is not, but to each their own.

different people have different threshold for intoxication. for me it rather high. yet zbiotics take care of day after and liver