What are the positive effects of coffee on our health?
Some say that the energy boosting effect of the morning coffee is only in your mind and you should sleep more. Let’s try to find out.
Proteins and nutrients from milk:
Soy milk is a very healthy alternative to regular dairy milk, soy milk is extracted from soy beans and we all know that coffee is made from soy beans.
Mental/Memory:
Caffeine, the main active chemical of coffee, it blocks adenosine, a chemical that makes you naturally drowsy, increasing concentration and reaction speed.
Caffeine seems to slow the dementia process rather than prevent it. Why caffeine has a slightly different effect on women than it does in men is still a puzzle.
Because coffee is a stimulant, a boost in energy is often experienced after consumption and some people experience increased cognitive function. Persons participating in endurance activities may also have improved performance.
Nervous System:
Caffeine has been found also to protect against Parkinson's disease, type 2 diabetes, liver cancer, and depression, and this could be linked to its inhibiting effect on adenosine receptors. Depression is eased because caffeine increases dopamine, the "happy feeling" hormone, in your brain.
Digestive System:
Everybody knows the laxative effect of coffee. Brewed coffee also contains soluble cellulose fibers, which help the body absorb vital nutrients, keep a lid on cholesterol and fight constipation.
Cancer Antioxidant:
A new research has found that coffee could cut the risk of skin cancer. 6 cups of caffeinated coffee daily lowered the likelihood of developing skin cancer by 35 %, while 2-3 cups lowered it by 12 %. Caffeine is believed to impede cells dividing in the tumor, or to work as an antioxidant. One research found coffee and exercising fight against sun-induced skin cancer by 400 %.
One study suggests that drinking coffee might protect smokers from bladder cancer. Coffee benefits related to the development of gallstones and colon cancer.
Other researches suggest that coffee could be beneficial also against breast cancer.
Other researches suggest that coffee could be beneficial also against breast cancer.
Coffee fights gout symptoms! The beverage lowers uric acid levels on short term, easing the most common and excruciatingly painful inflammatory arthritis in adult males. Drinking 4-5 cups of coffee daily significantly decreases the risk of gout by 40 % and over 6 cups per day by 59 %. Tea (which contains caffeine) has no impact on gout incidence, thus other chemical than caffeine induces this effect; the main suspected being the phenol chlorogenic acid, a powerful antioxidant.
Coffee was found to remove 78-90 % of the heavy metals dissolved in the tap water, like lead or copper, because the ground coffee has the molecules not electrically charged or negatively charged, attracting the heavy metals, which are positively charged. Stronger coffee removes a higher amount of the toxic heavy metals. Instead, tea removes just one third of the same amount of lead and has not effect on the copper.
Pain reliever:
Two cups of coffee reduce significantly post-gym muscle pain. Caffeine consumed one-hour before going to the gym induces a 48 % decrease in pain; those who drink caffeine before the near-maximum force test have 26 % drop in soreness. Caffeine boosts endurance, and one study discovered caffeine to decrease pain during moderate-intensity cycling. By blocking the receptors for adenosine, released in response to inflammation and implied in pain sensation, coffee could have this effect. Caffeine seems to be more efficient than conventional pain and soreness reliever drugs, like naproxen (the active ingredient in Aleve), aspirin and ibuprofen.
Induce libido and excitement:
Caffeine gets women in the mood for sex, especially in moderate amounts and when the women are not heavy drinkers. The chemical is also known to increase excitability in men.
