Posted on 07/20/2021 8:48:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
A new study found a connection between coffee consumption and liver disease. Here’s what you need to know.
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There’s a lot of information out there regarding coffee and its impact on your health. Recently, a lot of new studies have shown that it’s not all bad when it comes to your caffeine habit; drinking moderate amounts of coffee has been linked with decreased cancer odds, promoting fat burn, and more. Now, there’s a study that links the consumption of coffee with preventing liver disease.
Published in the journal BMC Public Health, the study tracked the development of liver disease in more than 495,000 people for a decade. Participants who drank coffee had 21% less chance of developing chronic liver disease when compared to non-coffee drinkers. Twenty-percent of coffee drinkers also had reduced risk of developing chronic or fatty liver disease.
One of the study’s most interesting findings indicates that if coffee drinkers contracted any type of liver disease, they were much less likely to die from it.
“Coffee is widely accessible and the benefits we see from our study may mean it could offer a potential preventative treatment for chronic liver disease,” said the study’s authors.
Benefits were stronger for people who consumed ground coffee as opposed to instant coffee. Researchers explain that ground coffee contains higher levels of kahweol and cafestol, elements that have appeared to be beneficial for liver health in different animal studies.
While this is good news for coffee drinkers, study authors warn that coffee consumption was reported when participants first enrolled in the study. Researchers didn’t account for any changes in amount or type of coffee that was consumed over the 10 years that the study took to be published.
Researchers also note that participants were predominantly white and from a higher socio-economic background, making it difficult to apply these results to a variety of countries and populations.
Future research could help better understand the link that exists between coffee and liver health, hopefully shedding a light on how to prevent or treat this illness with a drink that the majority of people encounter on their everyday to day life.
“Bartender, better make that an Irish Coffee.”
I thought studies could be done in months these days. Seems to be all it took for the jab studies.
Guess I'll have to switch from instant to brewed covfefe.
Presumably fresh ground decaf would work as well.
I guess rich white people are not human (commenter sips coffee, manages stock portfolio online)
Several studies. Animal and human.
Peer reviewed. Double blind.
We lived off grid for five years so I got used to instant because it was easy to heat up some water with the propane camp stove. We’ve still got a coffee maker tucked away somewhere.
Well, it won’t stop you from getting Hep C if a corpsman stabs you with a dirty needle.
So, “scientific researchers” are treating white wealthy people as a different species?
Science is dead. The poison of CRT is everywhere.
Breakfast - coffee a donut and a cigarette in briefing. Lunch - coffee and something from the flight line roach coach. Dinner - coffee, another cigarette and a TV dinner.
Life was simple then. For some reason I had trouble sleeping though.
I have my two cups in the morning and usually that is all.
My mom was a “keep the pot full all day” coffee drinker but I did not get “the habit” from her.
I was in my 30s before I started drinking coffee, and that was just to kill the time between arrival at the office building I worked in and when the office doors were unlocked. Prior to that I never drank coffee. After that it was a morning habit.
Breakfast - coffee a donut and a cigarette in briefing. Lunch - coffee and something from the flight line roach coach. Dinner - coffee, another cigarette and a TV dinner.
Life was simple then. For some reason I had trouble sleeping though.
Funny comments.
Dosage makes the poison. Anything can be good or bad depending on the dose.
The optimum for coffee seems to be 2-5 cups of brewed coffee a day. It is quite individualistic on short term effects.
Drinking too much water can kill you.
Having too little salt is very bad for you.
Maybe coffee is what is helping me reverse my gout. The purine-to-uric acid conversion is a liver function.
Coffee is killing people- Joe( two scoops) Biden!
Prevents Morning Grouchitis in me....
I have been drinking 2 cups a day for as long as I can remember, and it didnâÂÂt help me- after waiting for 4 years, I received a new liver May 2021.
Long history of auto- immune system disease.
By the way, this is my first post in years. Time to get back into it, now that IâÂÂm retired.
My wife and used to be that way, at least on weekends. We'd make a pot and drink it until it was gone. Of course, it would get rather burnt-tasting by the end. Once we started using a Keurig and K-cups, we found we drank less because we only drank a cup if we felt like it. I guess there is a feeling that one may as well keep consuming it if the pot has been made.
As time has gone by, I find I cannot tolerate the bitter taste of coffee as well as I used to. For decades I drank strong, black coffee. Now I have to add cream and I don't tend to drink it past 1:00 PM. Usually 2-3 cups per day is enough for me.
“Good To The Last Drop!”....or is it?
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