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High coffee consumption, brain volume and risk of dementia and stroke

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Re: High coffee consumption, brain volume and risk of dementia and stroke

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Post by m463 »

nabla9 wrote: post #2

The article is not claiming causal link, but this is still interesting. >After full covariate adjustment, consumption of >6 cups/day was associated with 53% higher odds of dementia compared to consumption of 1–2 cups/day Coffee is stimulant just like some Alzheimer medications used to treat symptoms. It would be interesting to see if people increase coffee consumption with cognitive decline.

I've also read, several places, that sleep deprivation correlates very highly with alzheimers.

People with trouble sleeping tend to be people with trouble staying awake.

And those people generally reach for coffee.

there's also the reverse, coffee interfering with sleep as well.

EDIT: add a link:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/sleep-well-and-reduce-yo...

Re: High coffee consumption, brain volume and risk of dementia and stroke

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Post by jijijijij »

david_shi wrote: post #140
jijijijij wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you talking about? Especially vitamin D is researched to death. You think scientists are stupid? If there is a incidence difference along the north-south axis, it's the first hypothesis investigated. Thing is, intervention usually doesn't prove very effective. That's why doctors aren't that hysterical about it. Then some vitamin supplement studies have shown actually harmful, eg. vitamin A as antioxidant. Vi…

I didn't say researchers, I said in a medical context. If you do a search on pubmed or Google Scholar, you can find a lot of research on how vitamin D supplementation proved beneficial for patients in different contexts. Also, I found your reply really jarring. Perhaps it's the immediate ad-hominem attack, but I just wanted to note that for your reference, it really didn't motivate me to want to engage any further wi…

Good thing I also mentioned doctors, who are, of course, applying the concluded result of research. But maybe you are talking about another "medical context".

I threw your "vitamin D supplementation proved beneficial" into Google and this Nature review article on vitamin D supplementation was the first result:

* https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-021-00593-z

Here is some additional reading you may find interesting:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

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