To Prevent Stroke & Heart Attack, 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 reveals 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 includes demographic, genetic, lifestyle, and dietary information on 9.2 million British volunteers.

In their analysis, they only included data from those who had a full set of data available, and who were not pregnant at the beginning of the study; this totaled 498,134 people.

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

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

Compared with non-coffee drinkers, all of the groups of coffee drinkers were less likely to die, regardless 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 slowed 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 or the type that you drink. 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 bloodstream when compared to fruit. Coffee results in bloodstream antioxidant levels almost 30 times higher than vegetables do. 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…