{"id":13401,"date":"2015-06-19T08:48:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=13401"},"modified":"2015-06-19T08:48:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:48:55","slug":"hops-are-giving-you-man-boobs-poppycock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/hops-are-giving-you-man-boobs-poppycock\/","title":{"rendered":"Hops are giving you man boobs? Poppycock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, drink enough IPAs and you could end up with man boobs &#151; so the headline on Wednesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/munchies.vice.com\/articles\/ipas-are-giving-you-man-boobs\">much passed around story<\/a> is, technically, a bit more accurate than the second paragraph: &#8220;Yes, you read that right: Hops are giving men man boobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article relies on &#8220;Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers&#8221; to demonize hops. The book drew controversial conclusions in 1998, and there considerable research since, unearthing plenty of contradicting evidence. <\/p>\n<p>The villain is 8-prenylnaringenin, a <a href=\"http:\/\/e.hormone.tulane.edu\/learning\/phytoestrogens.html\">phytoestrogen<\/a> mentioned in the story. Maybe the villain; not even that is exactly clear. But there is a bottom line; 8-prenylnaringenin is &#8220;abundant&#8221; in hops only when compared to the average plant. Research in Germany, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brauweltinternational.com\/pdf\/BRAUWELTInternational_1_2004_hopsteiner.pdf\">cited in this 2004 <em>Brauwelt<\/em> story<\/a>, notes that &#8220;levels in hops are very low. The concentration is below 0.01% and thus e.g. about 100 times lower than that of xanthohumol.&#8221; Hop researchers have been studying xanthohumal for some time, trying to promote its health benefits. The problem is you&#8217;d have to drink so much beer to enjoy to get the benefits you&#8217;d probably die from alcoholism.<\/p>\n<p>Various studies found that between 0.02 and 0.24 mg\/l of 8-prenylnaringenin end up in finished beer and that &#8220;humans would have to consume more than 1000 liters of beer daily to achieve detectable estrogenic effects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hops add no calories to beer. But drink enough 200-calorie IPAs and you&#8217;ve got a good running start on man boobs. Just don&#8217;t blame the hops<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, drink enough IPAs and you could end up with man boobs &#151; so the headline on Wednesday&#8217;s much passed around story is, technically, a bit more accurate than the second paragraph: &#8220;Yes, you read that right: Hops are giving men man boobs.&#8221; The article relies on &#8220;Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers&#8221; to demonize hops. &#8230; <a title=\"Hops are giving you man boobs? 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