Okay coffee deniers, listen up! People who "moderately" consume coffee are helping themselves live longer. Of course, I would guess it would be more likely the Coffee without all the creams, sugars, flavors, etc. There's a new study that says "regular, moderate coffee consumption not only contributes to a longer life but also enhances the quality of those additional years by reducing the risk of major age-related diseases and maintaining better overall health.
Industry-funded study suggests coffee really is the fountain of youth
CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology researchers in Portugal report that regular, moderate coffee consumption (three cups per day) not only contributes to a longer life but also enhances the quality of those additional years by reducing the risk of major age-related diseases and maintaining better overall health.
Coffee consumption's perception has shifted from potentially harmful to potentially beneficial over the last several decades. Scientific understanding of the underlying mechanisms by which coffee's primary components, namely caffeine and chlorogenic acids, influence fundamental biological processes and are understood to have alertness, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, though how these might be involved in aging remains unclear.
Beyond the primary components, coffee is a complex mixture of thousands of potentially bioactive substances, most of which lack comprehensive study of their impact, making it difficult to break down the specific effects of individual components on human health.
With coffee being the most consumed beverage in the world after water, what we can observe through large population studies may reveal its overall effect on human health.
In the study, "Impact of coffee intake on human aging: Epidemiology and cellular mechanisms," published in Ageing Research Reviews, researchers reviewed over 50 epidemiological studies from different regions and ethnicities, analyzing patterns of coffee consumption and their association with mortality data, healthspan indicators, and various disease metrics withing the combined cohort of nearly 3 million individuals.
Results indicate that regular, moderate coffee consumption not only contributes to a longer life but also enhances the quality of those additional years by reducing the risk of major age-related diseases and maintaining better overall health.
Moderate and regular intake correlated with a 17% reduction in all-cause mortality rates, fewer age-related diseases, and an extension of healthy life span by approximately 1.8 years.
Coffee drinking was correlated to lower functional deterioration in aging, mitigating memory loss, mood, and physical condition. The analysis also found consistent links between moderate coffee intake and reduced major causes of mortality, including cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, cancer, and respiratory disease-related deaths.
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