How Beer Affects the Body: Truth and Misconceptions

• Options and consequences

With the development of the beer industry and the emergence of a large number of craft brews that use only natural ingredients, people all over the world began to talk about the benefits of beer for the body. Opponents of this theory, in turn, emphasize that beer is primarily alcohol, which means that it, like other alcoholic beverages, can harm your health. Let's look at how things really are.

Options and consequences

All alcoholic beverages contain ethanol. When you enter the body, most of the ethanol is absorbed into the blood, and the rest is broken down in the liver into carbon dioxide and water. At the same time, there is a dose that this organ can process without much harm to the body. It is 14 grams of pure alcohol per hour. Translated into beer mugs, this is about 360 ml of a drink with 5% strength.

Anything above this volume causes intoxication and, as a consequence, poisoning of the body. That, in turn, provokes a hangover, aggravates chronic diseases, can cause addiction or cause the development of serious diseases. And here we can draw only one conclusion: the main thing is the amount you drink.

The myths that beer makes you grow a belly, that foamy drinks loosen muscles or can affect the male body with female hormones have no scientific basis. Beer itself is a low-calorie drink, and one can gain weight from it only if he drinks too much or combines it with fatty meals and snacks. As for sports, in small quantities beer can even play the role of an isotonic, that is, to maintain the necessary balance of water and electrolytes in the body.

Another argument in favor of beer is that in small quantities it can save you from depression. Scientists have found that people who drink beer regularly and in moderation are less likely to have psychological problems. The fact that beer contains B vitamins that help fight fatigue and stress. But here it is also important not to overdo it: too large doses of alcohol, on the contrary, can aggravate an already unstable condition.

A great solution for those who love beer and do not want to risk their health is to try non-alcoholic varieties. Modern brewers create beverages that taste and smell almost identical to conventional beers, but at the same time their danger to the body is minimized. True, for pregnant and nursing women it is better to refrain even from such beers, because a small strength — in the region of 0.5% — is usually present in them.

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Date: 21 April

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