How Coffee Can Affect your Health?

It’s all over the internet: coffee does affect your health. Better, it improves it. In fact, between 3 to 5 cups a day is indicated as a moderate consumption of coffee, and can bring good physiological effects along with a healthy diet and active lifestyle. As for pregnant and breastfeeding women the moderate consumption drops to 2 cups a day.

So, what coffee really does to your body?

Coffee is loaded with antioxidants and other beneficial nutrients. Studies even indicate that coffee drinkers have a much lower risk of several serious diseases. And more: coffee in particular boasts some serious health benefits: it’s a great natural source of antioxidants, it can boost happy feelings and it might even make you a better athlete.

Here are 6 fun facts about how coffee can improve your well-being (they’re much more, but we’ll be keeping these for now):

1. Coffee Makes you Smarter and can boost happy feelings

Coffee will help you feel less tired and will increase energy levels. This is because it contains a stimulant called caffeine. So, when you drink your morning cup, while the caffeine is being absorbed by your blood, it’s sending, at the same time, information to block a substance called adenosine. When that happens your neurons start to work really quickly. This will increase your memory, mood, vigilance, energy levels, reaction times and general cognitive function.

Yet, another study has shown that women who drank over than 4 per day had a 20% lower risk of being depressed and were 53% less likely to commit suicide.

2. Coffee doesn’t make your heart beat faster

Despite what we’ve heard in the past, it’s not true. A new study has found that caffeine doesn’t cause heartbeat irregularities. You can have your cup if you want to.

3. Coffee can help you burn fat

Besides being a great source of antioxidants, several studies have shown that caffeine can boost the metabolic rate by 3-11% (10, 11).

4. Coffee can help you being a better athlete

Caffeine stimulates your nervous system, causing it to send signals to the fat cells to break down body fat. It also increases Epinephrine (Adrenaline) levels in the blood, what will prepare your body for intense physical exertion.

5. Coffee can lower your risk of type II Diabetes

For some reason, coffee drinkers have a significantly reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes (which is characterized by elevated blood sugars in the context of insulin resistance or an inability to secrete insulin).

6. Coffee can protect you from Alzheimer’s Disease

Studies have been showing that coffee drinkers have up to a 65% lower risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease, which as a neurodegenerative disease that has no cure, and affect 65 years-old people or older.

So, what are you waiting for? Go and get that coffee cup! Go, go, go!!

And if you know more health benefits that can be found on coffee, share them with us! We love to know more about it!