{"id":257,"date":"2006-06-12T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=257"},"modified":"2006-06-12T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T20:09:10","slug":"hops-and-prostates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Hops and Prostates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060612\/ap_on_fe_st\/beer_prostate;_ylt=A9G_Rw4bjo1EzloBfARZ24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA\">Yahoo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A main ingredient in beer may help prevent prostate cancer and enlargement, according to a new study. But researchers say don&#8217;t rush out to stock the refrigerator because the ingredient is present in such small amounts that a person would have to drink more than 17 beers to benefit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Oregon State University researchers say the compound xanthohumol, found in hops, inhibits a specific protein in the cells along the surface of the prostate gland.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to assume those 17 beers would be Bud Light, which has an IBU in the neighborhood of 10 bittering units. Is it safe to assume then, than 17x that would equate to two pints of a beer with 85 bittering units? Maybe even three pints of a beer with 60 IBUs? That&#8217;s within reason &#8211; right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Yahoo: &#8220;A main ingredient in beer may help prevent prostate cancer and enlargement, according to a new study. But researchers say don&#8217;t rush out to stock the refrigerator because the ingredient is present in such small amounts that a person would have to drink more than 17 beers to benefit. &#8220;Oregon State University &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hops and Prostates?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-culture","category-other-beers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}