Beer: The New Antiaging Remedy
According to a recent article in MIT's Technology Review, undergads at Rice University are brewing BioBeer--beer that contains resveratrol, the chemical in red wine that is thought to protect against diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's, and other age-related conditions. "It's not going to prevent you from getting a beer gut from drinking too much beer," says Taylor Stevenson, one of six undergraduates working on the project. "But people are already drinking beer, so why not make the activity a little healthier?"
Resveratrol is found in low levels in hops, the raw ingredient of beer. "We're just trying to enhance something that's probably there at very low levels," says Jonathan Silberg, faculty advisor for the BioBeer project at Rice. "We're not trying to undermine wine's little niche in any way. It's a different market." Sounds promising, and way more fun than vitamins.
--AndreaLeigh
FredTownWard on November 11, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Only in America, what a country!
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