I see the news that beer turns straight men into gays. We tell you why running for a beer is pointless for a straight friend

In an interview with the publication "Paragraph" Professor of the International Academy of Sobriety, as well as a member of the International Association of Psychoanalysts Anatoly Glushchenko said that regular consumption of beer can affect a person's hormonal background and lead to changes in behavior. 

According to the expert, hops, which are contained even in non-alcoholic beer, are rich in the female hormone estradiol, which, according to him, can affect the physical and psycho-emotional state of men and women. Glushchenko said that men who regularly consume beer may experience changes, such as Decline in masculinity, Voice change, Narrowing of the shoulders, and pelvic enlargement and abdominal enlargement. 

In addition, according to him, due to high levels of estradiol, men may experience increased attractiveness to other men. 

The International Sobriety Academy is not a large scientific university, but an interest club (public organization) focused on sober initiatives. The scientific weight of such "professors" is closer to zero than real academic scientists.

Glushchenko also often comments on alcohol topics in the media, proposing bans on festivals, the sale of moonshine stills and even fines for inducement to drink. His statements are usually agitational in nature, but there is little scientific basis behind them.

Why you shouldn't run for a beer to get your straight friend drunk

In short: Beer doesn't make men gay. Alas. Neither light nor dark, nor craft with mango notes. This is pseudoscientific nonsense, most likely not a very smart person who managed to mix everything: hormones, sexism, homophobia and school biology skipped in the 7th grade.

Doberman.media analyzes all the delusional statements of this "professor".

1. "Estradiol in beer"

Yes, there are in hops phytoestrogens. No, it's not estradiol and not in doses that can change anything. To get a hormonal effect, you would have to drink tens of liters of beer per day And it will still be the first to break Liver, not "orientation"

Soybeans, flax, chickpeas, lentils contain many times more phytoestrogens.
But for some reason, after hummus, men do not marry men en masse. Strange, isn't it?

Хмель (Humulus lupulus) действительно содержит вещества с эстрогенной активностью, но это не эстрадиол — основной женский половой гормон человека и животных. Речь идет о фитоэстрогенах — растительных соединениях, которые могут имитировать эстроген, но действуют слабее и по-другому. Самый мощный из них в хмеле — 8-пренилнарингенин (8-PN), открытый в 1999 году. Он в 50 раз сильнее фитоэстрогенов из сои, но все равно в 70–20 000 раз слабее эстрадиола по связыванию с рецепторами. Концентрация 8-PN в пиве низкая: от 1 до 240 мкг на литр, а ежедневный intake от пива — около 0,14 мг. В безалкогольном пиве хмель тоже есть, но количества аналогичны или ниже. ^{_{/ Source /}} Historically, phytoestrogens in hops tied up with menstrual irregularities in hop pickers in the 19th century, but these were high doses from direct contact, not from beer.

2. "Shoulders narrow, voice rises"

This is pure fantasy. "Beer belly" and "man boobs" (gynecomastia) are more commonly associated with calories from beer, obesity, and alcohol, which lowers testosterone (from ethyl alcohol, not from hops). Research On alcoholics, they show: feminization (if any) from cirrhosis of the liver and metabolic disorders, and not from phytoestrogens in doses from beer. To cause an effect, doses thousands of times higher are needed – like If you drank 1000+ liters of soy milk daily. If hormones changed the body so easily, endocrinology would be a TikTok filter.

In experiments on rats or postmenopausal women (estrogen-free models), phytoestrogens from beer in doses of 1–2 drinks show a weak estrogenic effect — for example, a decrease in FSH and LH. But in healthy men with normal hormonal levels, this does not lead to changes. What's more, phytoestrogens may be beneficial: protect against prostate cancer or heart disease. Source

3. "Beer makes men gay"

No. Sexual Orientation:

• Not caused by drinks
• Not transferable
• does not turn on on the schedule

But, alcohol can do much more interesting things:

• remove the clips
• Remove fear
• to allow a person to manifest what is already there...

And here is an unpleasant moment for moralists: if "after the beer I was drawn to men" – the beer did not create anything, it simply turned off the inner policeman.

4. "Women become prostitutes"

This is no longer pseudoscience, but ordinary Misogyny with microphone. There is not a single study that would prove that hormones = leaving the family, alcohol = "prostitution".

Phytoestrogens in beer not cause "female hormone excess" or behavior changes. On the contrary, they are beneficial for menopausal women: they reduce hot flashes, support bones and muscles, Improve libido in low doses. Non-alcoholic beer even stimulates prolactin (hormone for lactation) in nursing mothers.

5. "Destroys families and kills the desire to have children"

Alcohol can be harmful – yes.
Alcoholism destroys families – yes.

But Beer ≠ end of civilization. If families collapse from the bottle, the problem is not in the bottle, but in the head.

Beer doesn't make you gay. He does not make prostitutes. Does not reprogram hormones. But For some reason, it does not make people who carry such game smarter. Here, unfortunately, non-alcoholic drugs do not help 🍺😏 either