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That’s all very interesting. But personally, I’ve noticed that even just a cup of coffee makes it more difficult for me to get a good night’s sleep, even if it’s consumed in the morning. Apparently even decaf has caffeine in it. Good sleep prevents death so I’m going to continue to avoid coffee. I’m probably an outlier in terms of caffeine sensitivity though. I know some people who can drink cups of regular coffee right before bedtime and they say that it doesn’t affect their sleep at all.
Replytry supplementing molybdenum. It is involved in breaking down caffeine.
ReplyCoffee tends to trigger panic attacks in me. More often than not I get this vauge sense of impending doom, which I also experience from energy drinks as well.
I drank a cup with 200ml of L-theanine the other day and was treated to the most intense coffee induced panic attack I’ve had in a decade. It lasted about 15 minutes. Again, the episode can be summarized as an undefinable sense of impending doom.
ReplyThat vague sense of doom you describe is exactly the feeling I get when I have a hypoglycemic episode, which used to happen often before I started eating right. I noticed that coffee can sometimes trigger that if I had only eaten simple carbs that day.
ReplyI drink coffee occassionally – maybe one cup a month. I find it hard to sleep after drinking it (and even strong tea keeps me awake). I plan to experiment with having a small cup of coffee on my fasting days.
ReplyCoffee is the bomb for fasting: it cuts appetite and gives you energy. Tea works well for fasting too.
ReplyI’ve wondering about this. I usually drink coffee in the morning and green tea in the afternoon. But when I’m fasting, I worry about the antioxidants in green tea stopping autophagy so it’s all coffee. Any thoughts?
ReplySimeon, green tea won’t stop autophagy. This misconception comes from the notion of antioxidants. True antioxidants dampen free radicals, and these are mainly vitamin C and E. The “antioxidants” in green tea and other similar sources in reality are hormetic agents, which increase stress defense mechanisms leading to lower free radical levels. Coffee is also often said to be the largest source of “antioxidants” for the average American, but the same thing is going on here, and coffee, like green tea, *promotes* autophagy.
So drink up.
ReplyI don’t seem to have any issues with coffee. Maybe because I’m a melancholic type. I can even drink it after supper (evening meal), and then falling asleep is still easy for me. Nevertheless, I limit it to two or three cups a day: a large one for breakfast and a small one after the meals.
ReplyI tend to have only one cup in the morning, and tea the rest of the day.
ReplyDid the researchers take into account the probable use of sweeteners or dairy products by many of the participants in the study. Would sugar or stevia affect autophagy?
ReplySugar would affect autophagy, but stevia will not, since it has zero calories. Also, if the amount of sugar were a teaspoon or on that neighborhood, the effect on autophagy is fairly transient. Other food would count for a lot more in that case.
ReplyI’d worry that there were no blinded studies about the benefits of coffee. It could easily be that productive people who drink coffee to get up for work are more likely to make better life choices than dregs who don’t work and don’t need to drink coffee.
Replymy issue with coffee is I like my coffee sweet
which means lots of sugar and cream
which is a no no for me if I plan to drink it everyday, so I rarely drink coffee
ReplyThere are many studies that support the benefits of coffee for long term health but also many studies that show concerns about consumption and risks for hypertension and heart disease. In the case of the latter, the studies demonstrate a growing theme about the role of genetics in determining an individual’s response. In this case it is the ability of one’s cytochrome P450 CYP1A2 detoxification enzyme that makes the difference – slow means increased risk and this function is scripted in the genome. Similarly, high powered studies in the December 2015 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition show that one’s response to carbohydrates by insulin is also genetically determined so that for one person a high carbohydrate diet may cause problems and for another high protein can trigger insulin resistance. The bottom line is that people need to get their genome analyzed. 23 and Me won’t provide that information, Pathway Genomics offers such testing.
Reply[…] Coffee, tea, and red wine all have notable health benefits, lowering risk of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer in epidemiological and lab animal studies. There’s been a lot of debate as to how it all works, and multiple mechanisms may be involved. For instance, all three of these can evoke hormesis, the compensatory rise in cellular defense that occurs upon exposure to small doses of toxins. […]
ReplyAccording to this article http://www.marksdailyapple.com/coffee-and-insulin-fat-and-post-workout-meals/, coffee decreases insulin sensitivity, but at the same time does some other things so that it’s still good for fat burning. Any thoughts on this?
ReplyWell, as Mark says, that’s a necessary component of lipolysis and free fatty acids. Coffee also is associated with longer life. All in all, coffee seems a very good thing.
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ReplyI heard a bigshot plastic surgeon doctor (Doctor Rey i think) says that coffe blocks vitamins in the intestine. It’s safe to say he can be ignored right?
ReplyI believe so. The only thing I’m aware of that coffee can block is iron.
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