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Same thing applies to when I drink non-alcoholic beer. Sometimes I just want another beer without getting drunk.


Beer contains dozens of flavonoids (from hops) which act as reversible monoamine oxidase inhibitors.

Alcohol is thus not essential for the feeling from drinking a good beer: MAO-B inhibition alone tends to produce euphoria.

Isn’t it interesting that all our legal drugs contain MAOIs? Coffee, tobacco, tea, beer, wine, even energy drinks...




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