To Prevent Cardiovascular Diseases, Drink This In Excess

We’re usually guided to do things in moderation, and that’s especially true when it comes to this controversial drink.

But a new study recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine revealed that drinking it excessively will reduce your risk of dying from strokes, heart attacks and pretty much anything else.

Scientists consulted the UK Biobank, a population-based study that had the demographic, genetic, lifestyle, and dietary information of 9.2 million British volunteers.

In their analysis, they only included the data of only those that had a full set of data available, along with those who were not pregnant at the beginning of the study, which totaled to 498,134 people.

They followed these volunteers between 2006 and 2016 and noted the deaths that occurred, regardless of the attributing factor, especially the common ones like cardiovascular events and cancer.

The participants ranged from ages 38 to 73, with an average age of 57. Of the participants, 54% of them were female and 71% of them were coffee drinkers.

Compared with non-coffee drinkers, all the groups of coffee drinkers were less likely to die, regarding of whether they were drinking less than one cup per day or drinking more than eight cups per day.

This held for deaths from all causes, including the most common causes such as cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Ground, instant, and decaffeinated coffee had the same effects, suggesting that caffeine was not the important healthy ingredient in this beverage.

Even people with genetic variations that led to a slowdown of their metabolism of caffeine experienced the same benefits as those who processed caffeine properly.

All this seems to suggest that coffee can protect against cardiovascular diseases, no matter the amount and the type you drink, and this was true even for those whose bodies did not process caffeine properly.

This is no wonder, as coffee is loaded with antioxidants.

Previous studies have found that, coffee contributed to more than 5.5 times the amount of antioxidants present in a person’s blood stream when compared to fruit, and was almost 30 times the amount antioxidants present when compared to those contributed by vegetables. Ouch!

But drinking coffee may not be enough to normalize cholesterol completely. For that, you need to cut out this one ingredient you didn’t even know you were consuming…