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Study: Compound Found In Beer Boosts Brain Function
An anonymous reader writes Researchers have found that a chemical found in hops may actually improve memory. Unfortunately, a person would need to drink 3,520 pints of beer a day to get a high enough dose of the chemical to boost their brain power. A daunting task for even the most enthusiastic Oktoberfest participant. From the article: "Researchers at Oregon State University discovered that doses of xanthohumol, a flavonoid found in hops, improved memory and thinking in a lucky group of mice. Flavonoids are a class of compounds present in plants, known to have numerous health benefits. Last year, researchers discovered that a flavonoid found in celery and artichokes could potentially fight pancreatic cancer. The researchers treated the mice with dietary supplements of xanthohumol over the course of eight weeks. Their goal was to determine if xanthohumol could affect palmitoylation, a naturally occurring process in animals (including humans) that's associated with memory degradation. The mice then went through a series of tests—including the popular Morris water maze—to gauge whether or not the treatments had improved their spatial memory and cognitive flexibility. For the younger mice in the group, it worked. But on the older mice, unfortunately, the xanthohumol didn't seem to have any effect."
So now we know why Charlie Gordon didn't stay smart - he was too old.
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3,520 pints... challenge accepted!
X correlates to Z. FTFY
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And here's something else you forgot to factor in - we're not that drunk.
Did you hear that everybody? They said they're not that drunk! Cheeky bastards!
They're not that drunk! They're not that drunk! They're not that drunk!
Legalize the constitution. Think for yourself question authority.
http://xkcd.com/323/
No matter how many beneficial ingredients/components that beer and other alcoholic beverages may have, the dominant, overriding player will always be the alcohol, which is just fucking terrible for you.
How did we confirm the luckification of these mice? Are the mice in my lab as lucky as the ones in this experiment?
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Unfortunately, a person would need to drink 3,520 pints of beer a day to get a high enough dose of the chemical to boost their brain power.
Or 2 pints of Hopalicious
I drink Pliny the Elder every Thursday @ 11 am at a bar locally here that taps just ONE KEG and this keg lasts about 1 Hour. 30-50 pitchers of beer.
Micro-bubbles in the brew.
Pliny is nice. Its balanced, lots of hops, IPA classic, only good fresh, and its smooth
Hops are really awesome. They are brain food. Also brewers yeast is able to even control blood pressure.
I love beer.
Legalize the constitution. Think for yourself question authority.
Been there, done that. But I can't remember.
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... 3,520 pints of beer a day
Challenge accepted!
This explains those famous last words, "Hey ya'll, watch this!"
Compound found in brain improves beer function.
...we'll be able to extract the brain boosting compounds and do away with beer altogether!
3520 Pints... I'm certainly up for the challenge!
with every j.
Just don't try to do them after a lot of beer or you will fall on your face and that will sting a bit.
ONLY 3,520 pints?!!
Can you get the benefits only by drinking beer, or can you get an accelerated dose by butt-chugging it?
One down, 3519 to go...
I'd be willing to volunteer for the human tests...
Is it enough to counterbalance all the compounds found in beer that reduce brain function?
This is slashdot; must drink 8-bit pale ale: http://www.tallgrassbeer.com/b...
It is said that we only make real use of about a tenth of our brain. And it has long been well known that alcohol kills brain cells.
Darwinian natural selection takes care of the rest. The weak brain cells die off, and in due time are flushed from the body. As more and more beer is consumed, more and more weak brain cells die, until the subject is left with a relatively small number of powerful, high-functioning brain cells operating in a cruft-free environment.
And thus, genius is born.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
... a single pint can make it feel like the same result as 3520 pints...
And it does not say that alcohol is good for you.
It said that one attribute held in common by a lot of people who lived into their 90s is that they drank two glasses of alcohol a day.
This does not in any way imply that alcohol is good for you. The alcohol consumption could very easily have been correlated with other habits also associated with longevity, such as frequent socializing. It is just as likely that the emotional and mental benefits of socializing is what kept them alive, with the alcohol having no impact or even a harmful impact.
This study is not sufficient to support any sort of hypothesis about alcohol being good for you....only that there was a correlation observed between moderate consumption and longevity.
You are a slashdot regular. You should know better.
A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And, when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we all know, kills brain cells, but naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine! That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers. The buffalo theory is concrete proof that getting drunk is good for your intelligence http://www.urbandictionary.com...
I'm in love with vegan superpower products, such as Mate. It tastes like ... something vomited in your mouth ... but you get to enjoy it, when the addiction sets in.
Give me what provides me with superpowers, and don't add the superficial stuff that gives it "good taste". Some sugar maybe, maybe some caramel, but no need to drown out the horrible taste of the magick plant power. A lot of effective plant stuff, just also comes with strong taste and smell. So be it :-)
(Albeit I don't care about cleansed water from magick wells, I care about plants having chemical properties that alter bodily functions in a profound way - like drugs, just with less guns, gangs and cops chasing you!)
When I drink beer, I am able to see the beauty in any woman.
Then apparently it's a chemical in hops with such low dosage that thousands of beers need to be drunk for the dosage to be meaningful...
What about the other compounds found in beer that would kill a person drinking such quantities?
Talk about baiting headlines...
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
When I use to drink large quantities of beer, I would not remember anything the next day ? Guess I did not drink enough for the memory boost effect. :)
...I am just leaving the office for the Munich Oktoberfest.
I'll do my best, but usually 5 Maß is my limit.
3520 bottles of beer on the take on down...
"But lest beer enthusiasts get too excited, it would require drinking 2,000 liters of beer a day (or 5,636 bottles of beer) to ingest the amount of xanthohumol used in the study."
I couldn't read TFA because I spilled a beer on my keyboard, but I agree in principle.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
If it's got "lots of hops" by American standards it is not anything "classic".
India Pale Ale - the real stuff, as from Burton-upon-Trent - is only considered hoppy by British standards. American breweries have been on an over-the-top hops kick the last 15 years and they put it in all sorts of beers that aren't supposed to have an overpowering hops flavor. The dominant flavor of any IPA you purchase from a Real Ale vendor in the UK is malt, although certainly it's far hoppier than Guinness and hoppier than a typical pub bitter.
American pseudo-IPAs have become their own thing, a noveau IPA if you will, that has little connection to the classic form. Nearly all modern American microbrews are severely unbalanced, to my taste - too much hops for full appreciation of the other, more subtle flavors. You may as well drink sake! English Real Ales, on the other hand, are wonderful, and there are certainly exceptions to the massively overhopped trend in American beer... Lancaster Brewery for example.
I shall quote it, link it and cite it whenever possible, even if not appropriate.
Captcha "instruct", how appropriate!
How my friends and I were able to solve the world's problems over a few drinks at the bar.
Best gaming times arrive right after the fourth pint!
Just need to breed hops to enhance the level of this flavonoid to high enough levels to be useful, and then brew a "smart beer" from it.
As long as it tastes better than Bud Light, it should sell like crazy.
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Really, this starts to be more and more like the yellow press.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
The amount of hops in Double IPAs are significantly more, which is why I love them? I wonder how much more there really is though?