It's never ending praise for the pomegranate in preventing disease, especially prostate cancer, but if you couldn't drink another glass of pomegranate juice, then you might be okay grabbing a beer instead.
According to researchers at Oregon State University, a primary compound found in hops, xanthohumol, inhibits a certain protein in cells along the surface of the prostate gland. That protein acts as a switch that turns on a variety of human malignancies, including prostate cancer. The compound xanthohumol belongs to a group of plant compounds called flavonoids, which have been reported for a wide variety of benefits in cancer prevention and overall disease prevention.
Since it will take 17 beers for the xanthohumol to have a noticeable effect, you might want to wait for researchers to come up with a supplement.
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6-01-2006 @ 6:19AM
nika7k said...
your title threw me for an existential gender loop.
My prostate! OMG, I have been so negligent in my beer drinking that its gone!
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6-02-2006 @ 11:15PM
Jordan Reabold said...
Damn fine work my friends at Oregon State! I am a beer enthusiast so to speak and I drink a lot. I drink about 17 or more beers when i get trashed, plus a few shots here and there. I must be pretty healthy then. Also, I am an American. Need I say more?
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6-13-2006 @ 9:50AM
Ed Teune said...
Supplement? A beer supplement? Sacrilidge!!!
I'll go with the 17 beers. I hope that's 17 beers per day right? The gov't should provide beer stamps to all males over the age of 40 to promote prostate health, it's shy of 2 cases every three days, so we'll need some help purchasing that. Perhaps a gov't subsidized pony keg system would be more economical.
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