Health News
Beer Good for Prostate
June 13, 2006
Xanthohumol, a product of one of the main ingredients in beer, may help prevent prostate cancer. US researchers have found that the cancer-fighting antioxidants found in hops offers beer a health benefit. Unfortunately beer does not have as potent a dose of xanthohumol that would be medicinal, which means you would need to drink a lot of beer to get the health benefits.
It would be possible to make pills that contain the concentrated doses of xanthohumol. German scientists are already brewing a beer that contains ten times as much xanthohumol than is found in most beer recipes. This would be a "healthy" German beer.