Coffee prevents Alzheimer’s two ways....Today's post:  Tuesday, 11-6-2018

1.  Back on Tuesday, August 21, I did a post “Very good news about coffee.”

That post had that researchers have verified that caffeine and similar compounds in coffee actively prevent aging of the mitochondria which protects your brain and heart quite powerfully AND how it does so.

I’ve included some key points from that post below.

2.  Today, the research was announced that roasting coffee beans actively prevents and may reverse Alzheimer’s a completely different way!

Apparently if you drink two to four cups of dark roast coffee a day you get a double acting Alzeimer’s preventive!

There is also a bonus for people who drink decaf.  They have to get a boost to their mitochondria a different way; but if they drink dark roasted decaf, they DO get this second protection!

(I’d be happy to email you the URL where I found this. davideller7@yahoo.com )

“Scientists have now proved that drinking certain types of coffee can be beneficial to brain health, but how does this popular brew support cognitive function? A new study identifies some of the mechanisms 

"Coffee consumption does seem to have some correlation to a decreased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease," notes Dr. Donald Weaver, who is co-director of the Krembil Brain Institute.

"But we wanted to investigate why that is — which compounds are involved and how they may impact age-related cognitive decline," he adds.

Dr. Weaver and team's findings — published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience — suggest that the key to coffee's brain-protecting benefits lie not in its caffeine content, but in the existence of compounds released in the process of roasting the coffee beans.

Gradually, all the links fell into place, as the researchers started focusing on a set of compounds called phenylindanes, which form during the process of roasting coffee beans and lend coffee its bitter flavor.

It is the phenylindanes, rather than any other coffee-related compounds, that seem to inhibit the amalgamation of tau and beta-amyloid. These are toxic proteins, of which the excessive buildup in the brain is a key factor in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

"So phenylindanes are a dual inhibitor. Very interesting, we were not expecting that," Dr. Weaver acknowledges.

It appears that a longer roasting time causes the coffee beans to produce more phenylindanes. This suggests that dark roasted coffee — whether regular or decaf — has the strongest protective effect on the brain.”

Both beta amyloid build-up and faulty tau build up tend to cause damage; but the amalgamation tends to be quite damaging and to spread other research found.

So besides preventing or cleaning out beta amyloid and tau with things like turmeric and vitamin D3 & vitamin K2 & plant sterols, adding this dark roasted coffee effect sounds very effective!

3.  If you didn’t see it, here are some key points from my post on how caffeine and related compounds keep the mitochondria in your brain’s cells strong and healthy:

Very good news about coffee.... Tuesday, 8-21-2018

Maybe you saw some of the research that coffee drinkers were less likely to get diabetes. 

Maybe you saw some of the research that said that coffee drinkers were less likely to get Alzheimer’s disease.

Initially this was thought to be because coffee is surprisingly high in antioxidants.  That may be so to some degree.

1.  But what if there was another much stronger reason for these good results?

I found out today there IS one.

The very good news is that drinking coffee is also good for your heart as well and will help you live longer too!

Most importantly, we now know the reason why this is so!

Your mitochondria are the energy centers in every cell in your body. 

They literally power your good health if you have plenty of them working well.  But if they are damaged or die off so does your health and eventually you!

It seems that coffee use causes your mitochondria to stay healthy and we have research that shows how that happens.

Dr Al Sears sent this in his email today:

“ “Researchers from Germany showed that caffeine can improve heart function in older people in just 10 days. The caffeine transformed old hearts into younger adult hearts.1

You might think that caffeine works by stimulating the heart, the same way it stimulates your brain and energy.

But it actually works deep down at the cellular level to protect and repair the heart muscle.

The researchers found that mitochondria in the heart need a protein called p27.

You know by now that mitochondria are the tiny power plants that fuel every cell in your body. They turn nutrients into fuel. Each of your heart muscle cells has 5,000 of these energy generators. They keep your heart strong, young and energetic.

When the caffeine moved the p27 protein into the mitochondria, it protected heart muscle cells from death and damage. It helped repair the heart muscle after a heart attack. And it improved the function of endothelial cells that line the interior of blood vessels.

All of this helps explain why population studies find that older people with a coffee habit have a reduced risk of death from heart disease.2

One study from Brazil found that people drinking just three cups of coffee a day reduced calcification or hardening of their coronary artery by an amazing 67%!3

Other studies link coffee drinking with lower death rates from type 2 diabetes, respiratory disease and stroke.

Coffee can also slash the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s by 65%.4”

It is true that drinking more than 3 cups of coffee a day can keep you awake at night.  And, drinking two or three cups before 2 PM and stopping does this much less.”

Now we know that drinking dark roast ALSO has a second effective way to prevent Alzheimer’s and memory and cognitive decline!