Study: Compound Found In Beer Boosts Brain Function

[Strictly Street]

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."

 

http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/10/01/2225205/study-compound-found-in-beer-boosts-brain-function

 

Is there anything beer can't do? 

 

[DAC]

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.

 

So, you'd have great brain function if you weren't already dead?

[Strictly Street]

So, you'd have great brain function if you weren't already dead?

 

Don't forget the other quote.

 

 

 

For the younger mice in the group, it worked. But on the older mice, unfortunately, the xanthohumol didn't seem to have any effect."

 

But there is hope that some bright chemist can refine something out of this report.

[C-bus]

3516 pints of beer on the wall.....

[Strictly Street]

3516 pints of beer on the wall.....

 

[ScubaCinci]

Also unfortunately, there's a lot of another chemical in beer that inhibits brain function.

[jdonn]

And... Make you fat

[ScubaCinci]

Actually, it doesn't but it does make you hungry and that's what gets you in trouble