Researchers from the Centre for Research in Health Technologies and Services (CINTESIS), in Porto, concluded that “drinking beer is good for the intestinal microbiota”, a factor that has been associated with the prevention of chronic diseases such as obesity.
In a statement, CINTESIS reveals that the study, published in the “Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry” and which also involved researchers from NOVA Medical School – Faculty of Medical Sciences, concluded that “drinking beer is good for the intestinal microbiota.”
“Beer consumption contributes to improving the composition of the intestinal microbiota, a factor that has been associated with the prevention of very common chronic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease,” says the statement, released this Monday. During the investigation, the team recruited healthy men, between 23 and 58 years, to participate in a trial, over four weeks, which consisted of drinking 330 milliliters (ml) of beer daily, with or without alcohol.
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The results proved that the consumption of beer, a drink that results from the fermentation of cereals, “increases the diversity of the intestinal microbiota, without increasing weight and fat mass.” At the same time, the researchers concluded that drinking this beverage “does not significantly interfere with cardiometabolic biomarkers” such as glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides.
