Beer is great for your gut health and probably better than probiotics
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Beer could actually be beneficial to your gut health and, surprisingly, might even be better than probiotics.
  • Laser@feddit.deEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    The important part here is “in moderation”, while a lot of stuff in beer is probably good for your gut health, alcohol is detrimental

      • Laser@feddit.deEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        The article itself doesn’t state it really, but the linked meta-study does in fact mostly reference non-alcoholic beer. Also two of the five authors work for the largest Chinese brewery:

        State Key Laboratory of Biological Fermentation Engineering of Beer, Tsingtao Brewery Co. Ltd., Qingdao, China

        So while the actual meta-study might be ok (I haven’t thoroughly checked for this), the article is lying by omission at least. The comments on it mention further issues, however these don’t seem to touch the core, but rather the historical aspects of beer.

    • Laser@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Good opportunity to link the WHO’s information regarding alcohol consumption they posted this year at https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health:

      No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health

      currently available evidence cannot indicate the existence of a threshold at which the carcinogenic effects of alcohol “switch on” and start to manifest in the human body

      Even though I agree with all the points the WHO makes (I myself haven’t drank in over a year), I’m 100% certain that alcohol consumption is also a result of drug policy for a lot of people because it’s the only legal way of inebriation for the population and total sobriety is nothing most people want. For a large portion of the populace, alcohol is the only actual option, and as long as policy makers don’t acknowledge this fact, not much will change about alcohol consumption. Safer (and from my point of view better, but opinion might vary) alternatives exist, but due to their legal status, there’s both a health and a legal risk.

      As long as drug policy follows a doctrine that is unsubstantiated by scientific evidence, curbing the alcohol consumption by a significant amount will remain unsuccessful.