WASHINGTON — A new study suggests that your morning brew might be doing more than just perking you up — it could be protecting you from a range of serious heart conditions. Researchers working with the Endocrine Society have found that drinking a moderate amount of coffee is associated with a lower risk of developing multiple cardiometabolic diseases. In simpler terms, your daily cup of coffee (or three) might help ward off conditions like Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

“Consuming three cups of coffee, or 200-300 mg caffeine, per day might help to reduce the risk of developing cardiometabolic multimorbidity in individuals without any cardiometabolic disease,” says Dr. Chaofu Ke, the lead author of the study from Suzhou Medical College in China, in a media release.

Source: https://studyfinds.org/3-cups-of-coffee-diseases/

  • Repple (she/her)@lemmy.world
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    I choose to believe all the studies that say coffee is healthy and none that say it is not. I won’t change my coffee drinking habits regardless, so best think positively?

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      Almost all science and logic in the history of the world is based on correlation. Discovering the causal link comes later, or more often than not never.

      Your glib comment seems smart to people on the internet, but what it actually demonstrates is a complete lack of understand of both words.

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        Yes, but in case of this kind of nutrition/health studies the correlation=/=causation is often a big problem. There are usually so many things at play and the studies just look at a tiny subset of them, making the results irrelevant or just plain wrong. I think this field would benefit greatly from a more ecological approach - in ecology, scientists often use methods for multidimensional analysis of a big number of factors that can or do influence the studied problem. This is rarely seen in medicine and nutrition, unfortunately.

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    than just perking you up

    It doesn’t, if you’re a regular drinker. Rather, you get withdrawal symptoms at morning.

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      Then you get mornings like today. Do I feel like shit because of withdrawal symptoms, or do I feel like shit from lack of sleep

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    Yes yes, studies show this, studies show that. And they all contradict each other, especially if you just wait a few years for things to come full circle.

    It’s gotten to a point where I just don’t believe them any more.

    Maybe coffee does in some circumstances with some people have a link to preventing diseases. Or maybe not.

    We’ve seen, and will continue to see, well researched scientific studies that argue both sides of this, until the end of history.

    Believe whatever makes you feel better, that’s all you can do, really.

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      That’s the journalists that inflate the meaning of these studies. The study itself will just say “we did measurements like this, here’s the data” and probably even “we should do more studies to confirm or deny or narrow it down”.

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      And none of these studies seem to talk about genetics. Ozzy Osbourne and I can drop hella drugs and alcohol, be just fine. OK. That has no bearing for the rest of humanity.

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        And i can drink coffee and or sugary caffinated drinks right before i go to bed and be asleep in 10 minutes ad sleep like a rock, undisturbable by anything short of 4 alarms up to 12 hours later.

        Sugar and caffeine actually make me sleepy.

        But thats not how it is for everyone else.

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            Maybe. But i dont need to have caffeine in order to need multiple alarms to wake up.

            I think it’s more out of habit.

            Like i said, caffeine makes me sleepy. Thats common amongst people with ADHD.

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      DO whatever makes you feel better is not bad advice. Some of these studies have overarching trends that I do believe - caffeine and Adderall are protective to your brain, a little bit of speed keeps the brain healthy.

      Alcohol and Benadryl are risky over time, so a habit of downers is detrimental to the brain over time.

      Logically this makes sense. I think to some extent it’s just metabolism/weight, staying lean is healthier all round but there does seem to be a pattern of results showing a habit of doing a little bit of stimulants is good for you.

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    I look forward to a solution to whatever disease causes people to try and talk to me before I’ve had my coffee.

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    Direct link: https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgae552/7754545

    tl;dr: Cardiometabolic multimorbidity is the co-occurrence of two or three cardiometabolic diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. This study found that habitual coffee or caffeine intake, especially at a moderate level, was associated with a lower risk of new-onset CM.

    Seems like a bit of a reach. Habitual caffeine intake means that you won’t get both diabetes and a stroke? I’m not convinced this is useful information.

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    That’s about caffeine, not coffee exactly, also beware studies that say ‘might’.

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    Well…I drink decaf. The internet seems to think coffee=caffeine. I can never find info about drinking decaf coffee.

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    I was curious about why all of the authors of a study from Oxford University seem to have Chinese names. I didn’t find any of their names in a search of Oxford’s staff, either.

    I have no idea what this means, but maybe the study was actually conducted elsewhere using data from the UK? Maybe there are just a ton of graduate students from China at Oxford in their life sciences program? I’m not insinuating any sinister, it just seems odd and I was trying to understand why.

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      The study isn’t from Oxford. It’s from a team of Chinese scientists (likely in China) who used a large dataset collected in the UK.

      The study is published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, which the Oxford Academic collects and reproduces for their academic press.

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    I wonder if some of the positive affect is due to the temporary increase of blood pressure which may flex the walls of the veins and so forth.