Beer is wonderful and good for you — I’ve always known this, and
I’ve said it regularly and loudly to anyone who will listen.
Also, to people who would rather not listen. Now, science offers
the latest proof that beer is medicine. Or rather that the
structure of some of the molecules that make up beer and give
hops it’s bitter bite, could be, in moderation and after years
of careful research, used to offer treatments for diabetes. If
the research pans out, it could mean a brand new breeds of
drugs. If it doesn’t, that’s a shame, but we could still finally
develop the world’s first truly perfect IPA. While that outcome
is certainly less good than new lifesaving drugs, I would humbly
submit that that doesn’t make it “not good.” New research from
the University of Washington suggests that the team’s work may
have uncovered one of the factors behind occasional studies that
suggest beer can have a healthy impact on people suffering from
diabetes and other conditions like obesity. The team used a
technique known as