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A recent study published in one of our favorite science journals, Cell Metabolism, has discovered a molecule found in beer (and milk) that might actually help fight weight gain. The study’s research showed that the molecule,nicotinamide riboside, may have helped mice gain less weight when they were fed a high-fat diet. The molecule also seems to play a part in increasing endurance in mice.
So drinking beer not only potentially helps you lose weight, but it might also make you stronger at the same time? That’s the kind of earth-shaking news that changes everything! We knew there was a reason we subscribe to Cell Metabolism.
We remain a little sketchy as to why exactly this molecule helps fight weight gain, but we’re still pretty psyched about the findings. It’s all very scientific and took us hours to get a handle on – but as best we could understand, the molecule appears to influence the cell’s mitochondria (don’t ask us what that is – you look it up!) somehow.
Who cares if we can barely understand all their molecular mumbo-jumbo? It’s the takeaway that we’re all about. Any study that finds that drinking beer might actually help you lose weight is our kind of study – whether we’ve a clue as to why it all happens or not.
The researchers came from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne and Weill Cornell Medical College, as well as other institutions, and they all have very complicated names, so we’re assuming they know their shit. And here’s how one of the researchers explains it…
“It really appears that cells use what they need when they need it, and the rest is set aside without being transformed into any kind of deleterious form,” study researcher Carles Canto said in a statement.
This study is only one of many recent studies that highlight positive news about the health benefits associated with drinking beer. Just two years ago, researchers at Italy’s Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura found that beer consumption may lower the risk of heart disease – so we’re thinking it might eventually even be found to successfully cure cancer. Why not…right? It’s on a roll.
Although we at American Craft Beer.com are encouraged by all of this positive news, we are hardly surprised. We always feel better when we’re drinking beer, and see these ongoing studies as reaffirmations of our own exhaustive research.
The bottom line is that beer is fast becoming the medical answer to problems that have long plagued mankind! So we have to ask the question again…
Beer – Is there anything it can’t do?
