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Regular beer consumption linked to higher prostate cancer risk:
[...] Overall, the researchers found no significant association between heavy consumption of all types of alcohol and prostate cancer. However, the results were very different in the case of heavy drinkers of beer. "Men in the upper quartile of beer consumption (over 63 drinks per year over several decades) had a 40% increased risk of advanced prostate cancer compared to the control group," said Karakiewicz, who is director of the Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit at the University of Montreal Health Center (CHUM).
Men whose beer consumption was slightly above average did not see an increase in their risk of developing prostate cancer. It's only when the daily quantity of beer consumed reaches a certain threshold that the risk starts to rise. "For example, our model shows that for a man who starts drinking at the age of 18 and drinks more than two beers every day, the risk of a high-grade prostate cancer appears at the age of 65. If he drinks more than three beers a day, the risk emerges at 50 years of age," Karakiewicz explained.
"At least one out of five participants in the study consumed beer at levels above what is considered safe," he added. Given that the cumulative consumption of beer over a lifetime appears to be a predictor of disease, he believes that it should be taken into account by physicians and urologists when seeing patients.
Fake Brews!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Hyperturtle on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:50PM
I thought it was the hops and the estrogenalike chemicals in it that messed with a guy's hormones?
Most 'articles' online worry about manboobs or something stupid like that. Few sites will say to worry about the effects of small amounts of these hormones consumed over the course of a man's adult life. They mostly say go exercise to work off thet calories, which has nothing to do with causing a higher risk of prostate cancer.
Here's a link that describes pretty much what would lead me to the conclusion its hops.
https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh22-3/220.pdf [nih.gov]
That is no smoking gun, of course... just entertaining reading about what the estrogenic effects do in the short term, to male and female mammals.
No one (to my knowledge) has explicitly done a study that points out what beer consumption can do over 50 years to a guys prostate. One could draw a conclusion that repeated exposure to hormones or hormone disruption over a long period of time, even if the quantity per drink is low, would do something negative to a creature that isn't designed to make use of extra doses of estrogen. For example, post-menopausal women receive mildly positive benefits.
However, as the fine article states:
"Various aspects of the estrogenic effects of alcoholic beverage congeners, however, remain to be elucidated"