Chinese scientists are determined to show the world that drinking beer could be good for the human body, and so they conducted a research that may have found a way to make beer beneficial for the body. 

In the study that was published in the Journal of Lipid Research, Chinese scientists found using experimentation techniques a way of turning beer into glycogen instead of fat in the liver of laboratory rodents, The Independent reports.

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Lead scientist Yan Chen said that their latest research could help prove that alcohol has positive effects to the human body. He even noted that this new finding can help propel future studies on new medicines that can combat the adverse effects of alcohol to the body.

Talking about the difference between glycogen and fat, Professor Chen compared the former to clean energy while the latter to coal or "dirty" energy.

According to him, fat is just like coal that releases pollutants to the environment once it burns.

"We are on the verge of shifting from dirty to clean energy, it's time to make the same kind of change inside our body too with the shift from fat to glycogen," he explained.

The Telegraph has learned that the the experiment scientists performed helped trim down the damaging fat in the liver of the test rodents.

To carry out the interesting process of glycogen formation, Chen and his colleagues strengthened the PPP1r3G gene in lab rats to curtail fat buildup and favor glycogen synthesis. 

"PPP1r3G is a regulatory subunit of protein phosphatase 1 and stimulates glycogenesis in the liver," the researches noted in the study. "Chronic and binge ethanol feeding reduced glycogen level in the mouse liver and such inhibitory effect of ethanol was reversed by PPP1R3G overexpression."

While the research was carried out positively in rats, Yen said they have yet to prove that this could also be helpful for the human body, according to Oregon Live.

He even added that this "is still not ready for clinical applications."

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