8 Reasons for adults to be friends with a cup of coffee daily

  

Millions of adult people worldwide start their day with a cup of coffee. 

By the way, what is the secret behind 450 million cups of coffee consumed in the US every day?

You or other people may have either experienced its taste, umami, texture, or not.

Ironically, different people within their societies really have different perceptions, opinions, and misconceptions about this exhilarating drink.

Some individuals, treat coffee as an addictive drink, it’s for adults and it leads to different health risks.

Still, recent studies have found various positive effects of drinking coffee regularly on different aspects of adult human health. 

Undoubtedly, coffee possesses numerous nutrients that facilitate different physiological body functions. Those include,

• Caffeine as the largest content
  
• Carbohydrates
• Protein
• Minerals and other chemical products

Apart from attractive taste and smell, coffee consumption has a wide range of health benefits to our life that are;

1. Mood improvement

Thanks to a huge quantity of caffeine, coffee drinking is thought to be linked with temporary mood enhancement. 

Once an individual sips a single cup, the caffeine inside tends to stimulate his or her CNS blood flow and eventually increase serotonin secretion.

Additionally, in 2004, Dr.  Robert O’Connor published that “caffeine from coffee might reduce pain perception based on the increased secretion of b-endorphin that exhibit pain-killer properties”.

Contrary, as everybody is unique, the overdose of caffeine is also associated with increased anxiety in some people who are not tolerant.

Moreover, for the sake of safe and beneficial human health, 300mg of coffee per day should be consumed on average.

2. Improve concentration or focusing

For the people who usually have nocturnal tasks, a cup of coffee should helpful during their work.

This is based on the fact that coffee’s caffeine and its metabolite paraxanthine act as a stimulating factor in the brain cortex. 

As a result, there will be an enhancement in; alertness decreased fatigue, and hence improved mental performance.

Further, sipping 8 ounces of coffee only might keep the individual being concentrated on his/her task thoroughly without sleeping easily.

Warningly, once the coffee is consumed excessively or 1000-1500 mg at single intake, trembling, anxiety, loss of mental concentration, tachycardia, and sleep disorder may result as well.

 3. Coffee is an aphrodisiac drink for adults

Yes, you’ve read it right! Coffee is among the food and drinks that may arouse sexual desires.

By reviewing different health literatures, they witness that caffeine is among strong stimulating agents in human mind. 

Again, caffeine is proved to excite and enhance the stamina of an individual by producing and regulating the receptors of dopamine that finally lead to an increased libido.

Once the coffee is consumed appropriately, it’s going to ramp up your love life.

4. Coffee may help in athlete’s endurance

Coffee and other caffeine sources has been used by athletes for a long period of time. Were they right?

Caffeine as an inducing factor may have a positive effect on endurance and exercises capacity based on different neural mechanisms.

Other researchers have found that caffeine can improve endurance and coordination in stop-go events such as team and racket sports.

Likewise, coffee may also be helpful in a high-intensity sports activity that may last from 1min up to almost an hour such as running races, swimming, and many others.

Intakes are also different based on the sports’ intensity and time. For instance, the active dose of caffeine should be 3mg per kg of body weight for 1-hour exercises.

However, in 1994 caffeine was removed in some sports as a banned substance while for others it is not accepted indeed. 

5. Improve cognitive health minimize Alzheimer’s in elderly

Caffeine has also been found to improve physical performance in both young and older adults. 

But how? Coffee possesses different substances such as caffeine, polyphenols, chlorogenic acids, and alkaloid β-carbolines.

These compounds are thought to be responsible for potential positive effects including neurological ones, anti-depressive and neuroprotective properties.

Also, improved memory, cognitive performance, and diminishing risks of Alzheimer’s in older adults result from these substances in coffee.

As cognitive functions including verbal ability, reasoning, and perceptual speed decrease after 20 years of aging, it should be crucial to drink coffee for minimizing these risks.        

6. Minimize the risks of adult-onset diabetes

Recent studies in 2014, found out that coffee consumption may be linked to decreased risks of type 2 diabetes. 

During their findings, they also stated that frequent coffee drinkers have 33% reduced risks of developing T2D compared to no, or infrequent drinkers.

Similarly, other studies also revealed that 32 ounces or 4 cups per day of decaffeinated coffee were caffeine-dependent linked with 20% of reduced risks.

Therefore, this implies that the diabetes risks reduction of coffee is not caffeine dependent.

However, deep researches on coffee consumption and diabetes are still so far from clarifying different controversies about these issues.  

7. Amazingly Coffee fibers may protect against colon cancer risks

This usually seems to be a hot and controversial topic when it comes to coffee's nutritional value.

Some researchers, published about 0g of dietary fibers present 100g of coffee while others were convinced that it has the chemical compound melanoidins.

This compound within a coffee is indigestible. Therefore, it becomes soluble dietary fiber in the combination with other coffee polysaccharides.

Their health benefits are quenching free radicals and improving (reduced or oxidized) glutathione balance in the colon. Finally, these processes are thought to minimize colon cancer.

8. Coffee may reduce the risks of liver diseases

Recently, frequent coffee drinking has been also associated with improved liver health.

New studies reveal that coffee consumption may diminish the susceptibility to liver cancer at 40% compared to no coffee drinking.

In 2014, in brazil, drinking 123mg of caffeine per day was found to decrease hepatic fibrosis. 

Additionally, for chronic hepatitis C patients who consumed this drink regularly, positive effects were also observed.

By which mechanism may coffee consumption improve liver health?

Well, through its chlorogenic acids, it can protect the liver from damage by mitigating cell apoptosis, and oxidative stress due to its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

 Bottom line

Coffee is an amazing drink with a unique taste and a range of health benefits based on mainly its caffeine.

People have different perceptions about coffee, be it better or worse ones. 

Undoubtedly, they are all right because once it is consumed appropriately they may improve the health of an individual.

While, once it is excessively consumed, many health problems including acute or chronic ones are raised indeed.

These include cardiovascular diseases, sleep disorders, hypertension, anxiety, addiction or compulsive coffee drinking, and many others.

For sake of better health, coffee consumption should be up to 400mg per day. This means its 200 mg per serving is safe for non-pregnant adults.

By considering the quantity of caffeine per cup, the range between 100mg to 200mg should be drunk which means, from 2 to 4 cups per day for better health.

 

Which one among these coffee health advantages surprised you the most? 

 

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