With caffeine being the most consumed stimulant worldwide, people have been seeing side effects from the increased coffee intake. The main reason coffee is so popular is because of its taste, as well as the effects some get from drinking it, according to camh.ca.
“People are tired of being tired, and caffeine is a legal stimulant that provides a little jolt of energy,” sleep medicine physician Abhinav Singh said in an interview with sleepfoundation.org.
On Sep. 27, 2022, a study was published to see if coffee could help prevent people from different diseases like Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke, according to nbcnews.com.
This study included just about 450,000 people who did not have any health problems. The subjects of the study were told to report exactly how many cups of coffee they drank throughout the day and which type it was. The researchers leading it categorized them into groups based on how many cups of coffee they drank, in order from zero cups to more than five. After 12 years, they found that the rates of people dying from cardiovascular diseases who had no coffee were higher in comparison to those who did, according to health.harvard.edu.
Specifically, people who drank 200 to 300 milligrams of coffee daily had a lower risk of cardiovascular diseases, according to nbcnews.com.
Although coffee can help with cardiovascular disease, it can also make things worse.
“The message I don’t want to get out there is that ‘caffeine is good, so let’s take more of it.’ We have never found that taking what is good in the diet and putting it in a pill is equally beneficial,” preventative cardiologist Stephen Kopecky said in an interview with nbcnews.com.
Another study was conducted during this investigation. There is also a link between a higher caffeine intake and a greater increase in dementia and stroke.
“It can give us an idea, but we can’t draw any conclusions. Everything in moderation is probably the best way to do it. If someone has a couple cups of coffee a day, this suggests that dose might be protective. However, some types of heart disease can make caffeine intake more dangerous,” co-director of the Center for Blood Pressure Disorders at Cleveland Clinic Luke Laffin said in an interview with nbcnews.com.
