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Drinking around three cups of coffee a day can improve our health and even make us live longer, suggests a mega study from the University of Coimbra.
A team from the University of Coimbra, in Portugal, analyzed 85 existing studies that involved participants from Europe, the Americas, Australia and Asia, and that analyzed the relationship between coffee and mortality rates and health indicators, account to
The results of the new study, which involved hundreds of thousands of volunteers, were revealing: drinking approximately three cups of coffee per day is associated with an increase of 1.84 years of lifewith regular consumption also being associated with an increase in healthspan (i.e., the time to live without serious illness).
“Traditional clinical recommendations have sometimes ignored the role of coffee in healthy aging”, says the neuroscientist Rodrigo Cunha, from the University of Coimbra.
“Our review highlights the role that regular, moderate coffee consumption may play in mediating against biological mechanisms that naturally slow or fail as we age — triggering a range of potential health problems and comorbidities (coexistence of two or more diseases in the same individual)”, explains the researcher.
“Regular coffee consumption appears to be associated with a preservation of muscular, cardiovascular, mental and immune system functions“, write the researchers in the article.
Furthermore, “it appears to be inversely associated with the incidence of the most common diseases that affect the elderlysuch as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, strokes, some cancers, diabetes, dementia, severe depression or frailty”.
According to Science Alert, These statistics fit with previous researchwhich show how coffee can potentially protect against, offset the negative effects of living and living.
“We know that the world’s population is aging faster than ever, which is why It is increasingly important to explore dietary interventions that can allow people to not only live longer, but also healthier lives”, says Cunha.
