7 Reasons Why Coffee Is Good For You

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I drink about a pot of coffee a day so I am in good shape! Got a pot brewing right now.....








7 Reasons Why Coffee Is Good For You




Coffee isn’t just warm and energizing, it may also be extremely good for you.

In recent years and decades, scientists have studied the effects of coffee on various aspects of health and their results have been nothing short of amazing.

Here are 7 reasons why coffee may actually be one of the healthiest beverages on the planet.

1. Coffee Can Make You Smarter

Coffee doesn’t just keep you awake, it may literally make you smarter as well.

The active ingredient in coffee is caffeine, which is a stimulant and the most commonly consumed psychoactive substance in the world.

Caffeine’s primary mechanism in the brain is blocking the effects of an inhibitory neurotransmitter called Adenosine.

By blocking the inhibitory effects of Adenosine, caffeine actually increases neuronal firing in the brain and the release of other neurotransmitters like dopamine and norepinephrine (1, 2).

Many controlled trials have examined the effects of caffeine on the brain, demonstrating that caffeine can improve mood, reaction time, memory, vigilance and general cognitive function (3).

Bottom Line: Caffeine potently blocks an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain, leading to a net stimulant effect. Controlled trials show that caffeine improves both mood and brain function.



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2. Coffee Can Help You Burn Fat and Improves Physical Performance

There’s a good reason why you will find caffeine in most commercial fat burning supplements.

Caffeine, partly due to its stimulant effect on the central nervous system, both raises metabolism and increases the oxidation of fatty acids (4, 5, 6).

Caffeine can also improve athletic performance by several mechanisms, including by mobilizing fatty acids from the fat tissues (7, 8).

In two separate meta-analyses, caffeine was found to increase exercise performance by 11-12% on average (9, 10).

Bottom Line: Caffeine raises the metabolic rate and helps to mobilize fatty acids from the fat tissues. It can also enhance physical performance.

3. Coffee May Drastically Lower Your Risk of Type II Diabetes

Type II diabetes is a lifestyle-related disease that has reached epidemic proportions, having increased 10-fold in a few decades and now afflicting about 300 million people.

This disease is characterized by high blood glucose levels due to insulin resistance or an inability to produce insulin.

In observational studies, coffee has been repeatedly associated with a lower risk of diabetes. The reduction in risk ranges from 23% all the way up to 67% (11, 12, 13, 14).

A massive review article looked at 18 studies with a total of 457.922 participants. Each additional cup of coffee per day lowered the risk of diabetes by 7%. The more coffee people drank, the lower their risk (15).

Bottom Line: Drinking coffee is associated with a drastically reduced risk of type II diabetes. People who drink several cups per day are the least likely to become diabetic.

4. Coffee May Lower Your Risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

Not only can coffee make you smarter in the short term, it may also protect your brain in old age.

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common neurodegenerative disorder in the world and a leading cause of dementia.

In prospective studies, coffee drinkers have up to a 60% lower risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia (16, 17, 18).

Parkinson’s is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by death of dopamine-generating neurons in the brain. Coffee may lower the risk of Parkinson’s by 32-60% (19, 20, 21, 22).

Bottom Line Coffee is associated with a much lower risk of dementia and the neurodegenerative disorders Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

5. Coffee May be Extremely Good For Your Liver

The liver is a remarkable organ that carries out hundreds of vital functions in the body.

It is very vulnerable to modern insults such as excess consumption of alcohol and fructose.

Cirrhosis is the end stage of liver damage caused by diseases like alcoholism and hepatitis, where liver tissue has been largely replaced by scar tissue.

Multiple studies have shown that coffee can lower the risk of cirrhosis by as much as 80%, the strongest effect for those who drank 4 or more cups per day (23, 24, 25).

Coffee may also lower the risk of liver cancer by around 40% (26, 27).

Bottom Line: Coffee appears to be protective against certain liver disorders, lowering the risk of liver cancer by 40% and cirrhosis by as much as 80%.

6. Coffee May Decrease Your Risk of Dying

Many people still seem to think that coffee is unhealthy.

This isn’t surprising though, since it is very common for conventional wisdom to be at exact odds with what the actual studies say.

In two very large prospective epidemiological studies, drinking coffee was associated with a lower risk of death by all causes (28).

This effect is particularly profound in type II diabetics, one study showing that coffee drinkers had a 30% lower risk of death during a 20 year period (29).

Bottom Line: Coffee consumption has been associated with a lower risk of death in prospective epidemiological studies, especially in type II diabetics.

7. Coffee is Loaded With Nutrients and Antioxidants

Coffee isn’t just black water.

Many of the nutrients in the coffee beans do make it into the final drink, which actually contains a decent amount of vitamins and minerals.

A cup of coffee contains (30):

6% of the RDA for Pantothenic Acid (Vitamin B5).
11% of the RDA for Riboflavin (Vitamin B2).
2% of the RDA for Niacin (B3) and Thiamine (B1).
3% of the RDA for Potassium and Manganese.

May not seem like much, but if you drink several cups of coffee per day then this quickly adds up.

But this isn’t all. Coffee also contains a massive amount of antioxidants.

In fact, coffee is the biggest source of antioxidants in the western diet, outranking both fruits and vegetables combined (31, 32, 33).

Bottom Line: Coffee contains a decent amount of several vitamins and minerals. It is also the biggest source of antioxidants in the modern diet.

Take Home Message

Even though coffee in moderate amounts is good for you, drinking way too much of it can still be harmful.

I’d also like to point out that many of the studies above were epidemiological in nature. Such studies can only show association, they can not prove that coffee caused the effects.

To make sure to preserve the health benefits, don’t put sugar or anything nasty in your coffee! If it tends to affect your sleep, then don’t drink it after 2pm.

At the end of the day, it does seem quite clear that coffee is NOT the villain it was made out to be.

If anything, coffee may literally be the healthiest beverage on the planet.

This article was republished with permission from Authority Nutrition.




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[Scouser012 Profile]

Coffee tastes like shit.

[Kinninigan Profile]

Coffee tastes like shit.

coffee is nector of the gods!....and how do you know what shit tastes like!

[Scouser012 Profile]

:look:

Coffee tastes like shit.

coffee is nector of the gods!....and how do you know what shit tastes like!

Ok, it tastes like how i would imagine shit would taste like!

[Rkobilan Profile]

I read awhile back that for every cup of coffee, some teas and soda that there is an acid in each by the way. This acid in essence works out that for every cup * oz. you consume you MUST consume twice the amount of water to replemmish what was used to break it down. This acid or phosfate also breaks down the human bone structure as it removes calcium from our bones to assist in the digestive process.


Please do a test for me. Take either hand and pinch the top of the other hand like you would a ballon. Get a good amount between your fingers pinch and release. Watch as it returns to it's regular state. If you witness that it does not snap back like a ballon would, then you are dehydrated! The longer it takes to return tells you how bad it is. Your skin in that test should snap back instantly like a ballon would.

Test II run your hands down the front of your shins, front of calves. Do you feel the little imperfections? Look at a real bone and see those imperfections do not exist.

I agree with you that in limited amounts there are benefits to coffee drinking it that is. But do not forget that there is another use for it too.

http://www.sawilsons.com/ sells a green roasted coffee that a doctor hulda clark uses from her fathers plan for treating many illnesses. Apparently, consuming coffee orally does what you state it does and that's about it. Where using a green roasted coffee and taking it rectally after consuming a small amount of chlorela. 30 miunutes after eating the chlorela which stimulates the stomach and gallbladder system the liver begins it's work. While that is going on the coffee enema is taken. The enema does many things mainly going directly into the blood system which goes to the liver and assists in purging it of toxins. There are also macro nutrients that also benefit the body. Add to it a colon cleanse and you may windup smelling something that smells more like petroleum product rather than fecal matter.

Done a couple of times you and your body will feel better.


For the nay sayers. It's like a car in that if you don't change the oil the engine will sieze. Humans do not change their blood and clearly do nothing to clean out the internal filter systems call the Liver, Kidneys and Lymphmatic systems. Remember posted here on DTV there was a story of science showing how the nervous system has links to the intestinal tract. Dr. Hulda Clark's fathers philosophy was to eat raw foods, juices and take these enemas daily to CURE most ailments. http://www.drclark.net/

Simply put with all the preservatives put in the food to make it last longer. Our bodies are not capable of breaking it down.

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[The57ironman Profile]

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...my nephrologist's orders are to have only one cup of regular coffee a day...

but i can drink the hell out of decaf....(which i do)...

....did you know that ''decaf'' is not void of caffeine..?

[Cosmine Profile]

Long time ago i knew a guy whom was drinking up to fifty cups a day...He died from a caffeine overdose..............


Moderation taste better...


Caffeine overdose can result in a state of central nervous system over-stimulation called caffeine intoxication (DSM-IV 305.90),[43] or colloquially the "caffeine jitters". The symptoms of caffeine intoxication are comparable to the symptoms of overdoses of other stimulants: they may include restlessness, fidgeting, anxiety, excitement, insomnia, flushing of the face, increased urination, gastrointestinal disturbance, muscle twitching, a rambling flow of thought and speech, irritability, irregular or rapid heart beat, and psychomotor agitation.[64] In cases of much larger overdoses, mania, depression, lapses in judgment, disorientation, disinhibition, delusions, hallucinations, or psychosis may occur, and rhabdomyolysis (breakdown of skeletal muscle tissue) can be provoked.[65][66]
Extreme overdose can result in death.[67][68] The median lethal dose (LD50) given orally, is 192 milligrams per kilogram in rats. The LD50 of caffeine in humans is dependent on individual sensitivity, but is estimated to be about 150 to 200 milligrams per kilogram of body mass or roughly 80 to 100 cups of coffee for an average adult.[4] Though achieving lethal dose with caffeine would be exceptionally difficult with regular coffee, there have been reported deaths from overdosing on caffeine pills, with serious symptoms of overdose requiring hospitalization occurring from as little as 2 grams of caffeine.[citation needed] An exception to this would be taking a drug such as fluvoxamine or levofloxacin, which blocks the liver enzyme responsible for the metabolism of caffeine, thus increasing the central effects and blood concentrations of caffeine five-fold.[66][67][68][69] Death typically occurs due to ventricular fibrillation caused by effects of caffeine on the cardiovascular system.
Treatment of severe caffeine intoxication is generally supportive, providing treatment of the immediate symptoms, but if the patient has very high serum levels of caffeine then peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis, or hemofiltration may be required.[64]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine

[Baboogdi Profile]

God bless the inventor of the French press.

[domdabears Profile Website]

I switched to decaf like 6 months ago.


No caffeine for me.

[Master Otomon Profile]

You cant get your penis up when you drink coffee though! FUCK THAT!