The Benefits of Coffee

Originally from Arabia and extended throughout the world, recent studies have acknowledge its infinite properties.

Studies published by the journal ‘Hepatology’ show how caffeine decreases the amount of fat found in the cells of mice that suffer from non-alcoholic fatty liver.

‘The Journal of Clinical Oncology’ published in recent studies that coffee helps to prevent relapses in patients treated with surgery and chemotherapy for colon cancer. The reason being that coffee acts by decreasing the inflammation that is found within the colon.

Other benefits would include:

• Decrease in the risk of suffering from diabetes… Studies conducted in Athens University state that this effect would be due to the large quantity of antioxidants that is found within coffee.
• There is also an increase in concentration and a decline in physical and mental fatigue.
• An increment in the resistance within sports.  
• Another important benefit of coffee found by Harvard University, is how it prevents skin cancer not melanoma, by filtering the Ultraviolet radiations that harm the skin.

Despite of all the benefits that coffee has, there are people that are intolerant to it leading them to suffer from:

• Insomnia.
• Tachycardia.
• Intestinal Discomfort.
• Polyuria or increase urinary frequency. 

This people need to take their measures, and primarily drink energetic drinks with caution, as many of these do not warn in regards to the amount of caffeine that they contain.

Experts recommend that nobody should drink more than 400mg of caffeine per day.

The caffeine content found in the most common drinks is:

• Coffee cup: 80mg of caffeine.
• Coca cola: 40mg of caffeine.
• Energetic drinks: 80mg in 250ml.

There are some multi-vitamin tablets that contain up to 300mg of caffeine.

It has been frequently forbidden for patients that suffer from hypertension to drink coffee, however if you have drank coffee your entire life it will not influence your BP readings.

And for everybody that tolerates it well, it is delicious!!

Dr. J. Hurtado Martínez
Medical Director of HealthSalus