Beer and weed, are not exactly the combination of nutrients that we would consider healthy, but are we wrong?
I always wondered about the nutrients in these substances when observing people who seem to exist almost completely on these two rather troubling substances. Now that there ias a lot more reasearch being done on the health benefits of cannabinoids, is there something we have been missing all along?
Let's face it the hops in beer is of natural origin as are the leaves in cannabis, and most of our if not all of our medicines ave their ultimate source in plants, but we can also argue that many compounds in plants can be poisonous too, so we really need to know what we are doing.
What about the hippies they never seem to have a worry in the world, is it because of their nutrition or just their non-stressed attitude?
I always wondered how some people live a life based on taking drugs and drinking beer and they seem to survive and then the healthy lady down the road gets a cancer diagnosis. Life is just not fair.
But maybe the drug-taking beer drinker knows something we don’t or maybe they are just lucky?
There are some powerful nutritional compounds at work within the person who consumes cannabinoids and hops.
I don’t think that alcohol helps, but maybe the power of the nutritional hops in the beer outweighs the effect of the alcohol? I am speculating, and I am not proposing that we all go out and drink beer unless, of course, it is non-alcoholic beer.
Also, I am not saying we all go out and eat foods made with weed, but here too we see that there are some powerful nutritional compounds at play. Hemp would be the better and healthier way to go without the mind-altering compounds present in weed.
The healthy part of the hops plant is the flower, which contains compounds that protect the plant and some essential oils. Scientists have found that the thousands of compounds found in the flower of the hops plant have a similar protection function in the human body, isn’t that amazing!
The health benefits like energy boost and supporting joints and mobility, improving focus, healthy respiratory function are quite applicable in today’s world. Weight management, Healthy nerve function. Hop oils contain many of the same active micronutrients that are present in cannabis and hemp.
The hops plant has these ‘terpenes’ that are the active nutritional compounds that when combined with CBD oils from hemp and other nutrients create an even more synergistic and powerful nutritional profile, to fight off disease.
A specific flavonoid from the hops plant is a broad-spectrum cancer fighter and also has the benefit of reducing hot flashes in post-menopausal women.
Perhaps those hippies enjoy life a lot more than we think, perhaps deep down they are a lot healthier than we think they are.
And once again the golden rule applies to be read in a hippie's voice, ‘everything in moderation man, and don’t get heavy.’ a meta-analysis of beer consumption on heart health showed that moderate consumption, leads to favorable cholesterol counts and an increase in the good cholesterol or High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL). Also, what was interesting was that vascular elasticity improved, which helps with circulation.
I call on your hippie reading voice again for this… ‘But don’t get heavy man,’ the WHO (World Health Organisation) defines moderate drinking as one beer a night for women and two beers a night for men.
The fermentation process and the plants and yeasts involved in the making of beer coupled with the hops nutritional factors have a positive effect on cardiovascular health.
The flower power of the hippies and hops is so profound, man, peace out…
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Dean Gee
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Day 4 of Quitting
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