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Apart from being everyone’s favorite margarita ingredient, tequila is also good for your bones, according to a Mexican research study.

Science Daily recently reported that a scientist found that blue agave, which is used to make tequila contains substances that might improve absorption of calcium and magnesium, both of which are essential for bone health.

Of course, there’s a science-ier way of putting this. “The consumption of fructans contained in the agave, in collaboration with adequate intestinal micriobiota, promotes the formation of new bone, even with the presence of osteoporosis,” Dr. Mercedes López, leader of the project, explained.

In the study, mice which were given blue agave fructons produced 50 more osteocalcin, a protein which indicates the production of new bone, than those that did not consume the fructons. Not only that but the diameter of their bones was also measured to be higher after eight weeks of ingestion.

This means that blue agave might prove to be a potential treatment for osteoporosis, which affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. So, got agave?