Two observations I have made with coffee.
1. When I drink too much dark roast coffee, especially Starbucks, it enlarges my prostate. A coffee shop opened adjoining a store I owned, and I had a bottomless cup. It took about a week of drinking dark roast until the symptoms appeared.
I love the taste of dark roast and have repeated this experiment many times with the same result.
2. Sometimes there are additives in coffee that they do not disclose. Several years ago I purchased “White House Coffee.” Every time I drank it, I would get an extreme headache. I real bad thumping pain within seconds of consumption.
I called the manufacturer and they stonewalled me, saying the process they used was secret.
I drink all kinds of coffee from all over the world. Vietnamese, Turkish, Colombian, Hawaiian,...
Usually I grind the beans and make a single serving in a press. The water temp at the beginning of the extraction is between 210 and 212 degrees. And, I use spring water to avoid the chlorine.
For years I used municipal water that had chloramines in it. I became concerned as unlike chlorine, chloramines are not filtered, or boiled out. They pass into your body with the coffee. There are several studies that link them to cancer.
I became concerned as unlike chlorine, chloramines are not filtered, or boiled out.
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Good point... From what I understand, even the reverse osmosis membranes don’t take out the chloramines. However, the carbon pre-filters supposedly do although I’ve never seen published values for this. You are reminding me that I need to get a new RO system and this will be one of the things that needs to be checked.
By the way, it was because of chloramines that I’ve given up going to the pool.