Cure for the common cold

[HFWR]

A beer prescription? Beer can fight against cold-causing virus | Fox News

A study cited by Sapporo Breweries, Japanese breweries headquartered in Tokyo, found that a key ingredient in beer can help fend off symptoms of wintertime illnesses...

However, the research comes with a catch. The amount of humulone in beer is so small that a person would have to drink 12 ounces – or about 30 cans – of beer in order to get its protective effect.

So, drink up!

 

[FIREd]

Dawg52 had it right all along! Beers are meds!

 

[Bestwifeever]

A beer prescription? Beer can fight against cold-causing virus | Fox News

So, drink up!

those are awfully little cans

 

[W2R]

I think I'd rather be sick!

 

[powerplay]

It seems that retirement has been the cure for me. Only had one cold in the nearly three years I've been retired.

 

[braumeister]

Just for the record, humulone is a component of hops, and mass market beers contain such tiny amounts of hops (practically undetectable) as to make this a non-issue.

Now craft beers, OTOH, have a number of health benefits unrelated to this aspect, so there may be a grain of truth here.

For my part, I believe the single most effective thing you can do to prevent colds is to wash your hands often, with soap.

 

[ERD50]

Just for the record, humulone is a component of hops, and mass market beers contain such tiny amounts of hops (practically undetectable) as to make this a non-issue.

Now craft beers, OTOH, have a number of health benefits unrelated to this aspect, so there may be a grain of truth here.

For my part, I believe the single most effective thing you can do to prevent colds is to wash your hands often, with soap.

I was going to make the same point about hop amounts. There's probably a 10x or more difference between the mass market beers and some hop-head craft brews.

Here you go - best of both worlds - hop soap!

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-ERD50