Posted on 07/23/2021 9:53:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
ADELAIDE, Australia — That morning cup of joe may be just what you need to help jumpstart your workday and sharpen your mind. But if you find yourself repeatedly heading over to the coffee pot for refills, you may be actually putting your brain health at risk. Too much coffee can increase the risk of dementia, warns a new study.
Drinking six or more cups a day was linked with a 53 percent increased risk of dementia and make stroke more likely, too. Brain imaging reveals that drinking a lot of coffee was also associated with brain shrinkage, say scientists.
The study, conducted at the Australian Centre for Precision Health at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, is the largest of its kind based on 17,702 participants aged 30 to 37. Kitty Pham, a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia, who led the team of international researchers, says the findings draw attention to the risk of over-consuming.
“Coffee is among the most popular drinks in the world. Yet with global consumption being more than nine billion kilograms a year, it’s critical that we understand any potential health implications,” she explains in a statement. “This is the most extensive investigation into the connections between coffee, brain volume measurements, the risks of dementia, and the risks of stroke – it’s also the largest study to consider volumetric brain imaging data and a wide range of confounding factors.
“Accounting for all possible permutations, we consistently found that higher coffee consumption was significantly associated with reduced brain volume,” she continues. “Essentially, drinking more than six cups of coffee a day may be putting you at risk of brain diseases such as dementia and stroke.”
‘Drink water alongside that cup of coffee,’ researchers suggest Dementia is a degenerative brain condition that affects memory, thinking, behavior and the ability to perform everyday tasks. About 50 million people are diagnosed with the condition worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 5 million senior Americans suffer from dementia. That figure is expected to balloon to 14 million by 2060, the agency predicts.
“This research provides vital insights about heavy coffee consumption and brain health, but as with many things in life, moderation is the key,” says senior investigator Elina Hyppönen, director of Australian Centre for Precision Health. “Together with other genetic evidence and a randomized controlled trial, these data strongly suggest that high coffee consumption can adversely affect brain health. While the exact mechanisms are not known, one simple thing we can do is to keep hydrated and remember to drink a bit of water alongside that cup of coffee.
“Typical daily coffee consumption is somewhere between one and two standard cups of coffee. Of course, while unit measures can vary, a couple of cups of coffee a day is generally fine,” she adds. “However, if you’re finding that your coffee consumption is heading up toward more than six cups a day, it’s about time you rethink your next drink.”
The findings are published in the journal Nutritional Neuroscience.
SWNS writer William Janes contributed to this report.
No just less increased risk...................
But...
Drinking any coffee reduces the risk of liver disease, study finds
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3978629/posts
Truth. This is why there is such a large OTC market for anti-oxidants.
So great kidneys, terrible brain?
Two k cups every morning. If I were still brewing French press every day….I guess the vax and the caffeine would have killed me by now.
You’ll have a good liver but you won’t know it.. ........ 😷🤓😏
Yes, this so you won’t know when you’ve peed on yourself................😨
I have been looking, and so far, I have not found a link.
I find it useful to go to the source, rather than what other people say the source says.
If anyone has a line, please let me know.
It appears 2-5 cups is the optimum amount.
Last week coffee good for your liver...but you’ll lose your mind.
😅
Everything I like is either immoral, unhealthy, or fattening!
Ha! Until you’re told it’s NOT raining.
There were inverse linear associations between habitual coffee consumption and total brain (fully adjusted β per cup −1.42, 95% CI −1.89, −0.94), grey matter (β −0.91, 95% CI −1.20, −0.62), white matter (β −0.51, 95% CI −0.83, −0.19) and hippocampal volumes (β −0.01, 95% CI −0.02, −0.003), but no evidence to support an association with white matter hyperintensity (WMH) volume (β −0.01, 95% CI −0.07, 0.05). The association between coffee consumption and dementia was non-linear (Pnon-linearity = 0.0001), with evidence for higher odds for non-coffee and decaffeinated coffee drinkers and those drinking >6 cups/day, compared to light coffee drinkers. After full covariate adjustment, consumption of >6 cups/day was associated with 53% higher odds of dementia compared to consumption of 1–2 cups/day (fully adjusted OR 1.53, 95% CI 1.28, 1.83), with less evidence for an association with stroke (OR 1.17, 95% CI 1.00, 1.37, p = 0.055).
It appears to be a straight comparison, with no correction for other factors, such as alcohol consumption.
It appears 1-2 cups a day of coffee had less dementia than people who did not drink coffee, those who drank decaffeinated coffee, and those who drank more than six cups of coffee a day.
I do not find the results to be particularly convincing. They need to check multitudinous other factors.
Is brain shrinkage a cause of dementia. How do they know your brain shrunk? Don’t they need a before and after comparison?
so that’s what my problem is! I wonder if it makes other things shrink as well.
Who gives a Rats a$$ nobody gets off Earth alive anyway.
What’s with 10 posts trashing coffee today? Damn, everything we do is targeted by bored control freaks anymore. Enough is enough.
My mom rarely drank coffee, if ever. She had dementia.
Mine drinks 2-3 pots a day and she has dementia. But then she’s 95, so that might have just a little something to do with it.
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