Germany extends far beyond the Olympics thanks to ... beer?

During training, Simon Schempp, a German team-skater, often ended a hard day with refreshing drinks.

It is not sports drink but it is. Sharing in The New York Times, the athlete who won 2 silver and 1 silver medals said it "has a direct effect on high-performance training".

Simon Schempp won 2 medals at the Pyeongchang Olympic Games 2018 - (Photo: Getty Images).

Better than sports drinks?

Not only Simon Schempp, most of the German sports teams of other teams also bring non-alcoholic beer to their dining menu while practicing. They not only drink a favorite kind but drink a lot of different types.

This year, Germany's Krombacher brewed a fund of 3,500 liters of non-alcoholic beer for the country's sports team.

Beer companies in Germany first produced non-alcoholic beer in East Germany in 1973, for the driver.

A decade later, companies that start producing non-alcoholic beer are geared towards health-conscious users who don't want to be tired of being drunk after a party.

The Magdalena Neuner (Germany) drank non-alcoholic beer when winning the mixed shooting ski world championship that took place in Ruhpolding, Germany in 2012 - (Photo: Getty Images).

However, according to Scherr - who is also a sports medicine lecturer at the Technical University of Munich (Germany), at that time it was not known the scientific meaning behind non-alcoholic beer.

Later, Scherr conducted two consecutive studies in which the 2009 Munich marathon athletes will drink non-alcoholic beer 3 weeks before and 2 weeks after the race.

As a result, these athletes have less inflammation than 20% of normal people. At the same time, they were less likely to have upper respiratory infections than placebo athletes, a placebo that was both psychological and physiological.

"The results are surprising to us. Non-alcoholic beer helps athletes recover faster , it also helps athletes practice under higher intensity , " Scherr said when publishing results in Medicine magazine. & Science in Sports & Exercise.

Growing in Germany

Top 3 Berlin athletes at the marathon drinking non-alcoholic beer - (Photo: Christian Behnke).

According to Scherr, non-alcoholic beer is healthy thanks to polyphenols - a chemical that boosts immunity from fermented plants.

Talking on National Public Radio (NPR), Desbrow, an Australian nutritionist, who has long studied the effects of beer - said that when he studied in 2013, his team found that non-alcoholic beer at the end Matching electrolytes will help your body retain more water.

Germany is one of the most consuming countries in the world. Particularly, non-alcoholic beer is consumed by the second largest German in the world after Iran.

From 2011-2016, the consumption of non-alcoholic beer in Germany increased by 43% although beer consumption generally decreased, according to Euromonitor International.

Beer is less alcoholic than many sports drinks. According to statistics, Germans drink three times more non-alcoholic beer than other sports drinks.

Today, technology has created more than 400 non-alcoholic beers on the German market. Besides, many brewers now sell non-alcoholic beer as a sports drink.

Every athlete participating in the Berlin marathon last year was invited to a non-alcoholic beer - (Photo: Christian Behnke).

During marathons, non-alcoholic beer is always available at the destination for athletes. Last year, at the Berlin marathon, Erdinger provided more than 30,000 non-alcoholic beers.

The Germans are always famous for their scientific spirit and development. Certainly other countries will be interested in applying non-alcoholic beer to exercise in the future, following the example of Germany at this year's Olympic Pyeongchang.