Beer As Medicine

Written by a board-certified physician and medical expert, this book shows that beer can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, osteoporosis, gallstones, kidney stones, dementia, and cataracts. The author also teaches readers how to drink safely to improve health, prevent DUIs, and avoid hangovers.

Learn how to drink alcohol safely for maximum health benefits. A board-certified physician provides the latest scientific evidence that people who regularly consume a small amount of alcohol, namely beer, live longer compared to those who booze too much, don't drink at all, or drink occasionally. The author coins the term "therapeutic alcohol dose" and shows how drinking small doses of beer can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, osteoporosis, gallstone, kidney stone, dementia, and cataracts. Readers will learn about medicinal properties of various types and varieties of beer including ale, cask ale, stout, porter, draft, dark, light, filtered, unfiltered, pasteurized, unpasteurized, gluten-free and non-alcoholic.

Walter Friberg, MD, Cert. Ac., FAAPMR, MACIME is a rehabilitation physician and medical expert, Fellow of American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Clinical Assistant Professor, Chair  of American Board of Certified Medical Examiners, Medical Director of Friberg Spine and Joint Pain Clinic at Thorek Memorial Hospital in Chicago IL, USA. His practice has focused on combining modern rehabilitation with naturopathic medicine.