Coffee proven GOOD for your heart!...Today's post:  Tuesday, 6-26-2018

It seems that an intake of 3 or 4 cups a day of coffee was tested to help the mitochondria in heart tissue stay healthy and even facilitate repairs when the heart muscle is damaged.

This is for drinks of coffee spaced throughout the day--  NOT for four at once or 12 or more cups a day or for 4 cups plus a stimulant too.  Those things tend to do the reverse or cause heart rhythm problems.

Also, drip brewed coffee is fine; but percolated and some other methods boost LDL cholesterol over time.

Then too some people prone to anxiety or high blood pressure can have problems with that much coffee.

But otherwise, most of the people who drink no coffee at all to protect their heart are simply proven wrong by this study.

How four cups of coffee might protect the heart

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245588.php

Caffeine is known to protect against heart disease and stroke. A new study finds the mechanism that underpins this protection, and mitochondria are key.

“In earlier experiments, the authors of the new study found that caffeine levels equivalent to around four cups of coffee improved the function of endothelial cells, which line the inside of blood vessels.

They also revealed that the benefits that caffeine imparted seemed to involve mitochondria. These, as everyone is well aware, are commonly referred to as the powerhouses of the cell — a description so well known it has achieved meme status.

Mitochondria won their title because, within their membranes, adenosine triphosphate — which is the energy currency of life — is produced.”

Last week’s post analyzed the possible effect of coffee as producing cancer and found it overstated and easily overcome if it exists at all:

 “Drinking coffee

In March, a California judge ruled that Starbucks and other coffee businesses must include cancer warnings on their products.

Despite this frightening announcement, there’s extensive scientific research on coffee which suggests that, if anything, regularly drinking the brew is linked with a reduced cancer risk as well as a range of other health benefits, such as protecting against diabetes and boosting heart health.

That said, doctors recommend limiting your caffeine intake to 400 milligrams per day, or about 3 to 4 standard cups of drip coffee.”

This is weak and confusing coverage in my opinion.  This is what this is about:

Coffee and instant coffee that you drink is made from roasted coffee beans that are then ground and hot water used to extract the active ingredients and flavor.

When foods with any carbohydrate are roasted with high heat it causes the release of acrylamide which has been found to cause cancer in higher doses.

This means that roasted coffee beans do have some acrylamide in them.

Is this likely to cause people who drink coffee or instant coffee to get cancer?

I agree with their apparent view that the answer is probably not.

But what they don’t say is why.

And, they don’t say how to dramatically reduce the risk which is most important.

Here’s what they left out:

Most of the acrylamide people consume comes from toasted NOT organic refined grain hybrid wheat.  If you know to NEVER eat that food  and why and almost never do, you’ll escape enough acrylamide to make the small amount in roasted coffee beans far less dangerous.

The many kinds of antioxidants and cancer preventing substances in coffee beans are so many and so effective, the actual data tend to show coffee drinkers are healthier and less likely to have cancer than people who don’t.

Then too it’s extra important to get organic coffee and instant coffee.  The coffee made from heavily sprayed coffee beans may cause cancer from the herbicides and pesticides; and this risk is in my opinion about 100 times greater than the risk from the tiny bit of acrylamide.

So, consider drinking only organic coffee and instant coffee to prevent cancer if you want coffee that does not cause cancer.

Last but far from least, completely avoid tobacco, its smoke, and nicotine and eat a very low inflammation lifestyle and take supplements that support low inflammation -- and those such as olive leaf extract that tend to prevent cancer.