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Do you have a source for this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP1A2
Where on this page does it say that having this mutation makes coffee less harmful?
Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”
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#92In about 100 years, people will realize that this kind of research doesn't actually work. Here's the problem: the human body is an immensely complex system, with millions of factors influencing its status and well-being. Untangling these factors correctly and producing an accurate and sophisticated statistical theory of the body would require a comparably large number of parameters - on the order of millions or more.…
In some sense traditional medicine or traditional\religious healthy habits (I'm thinking something like kashrut) has way larger sample since it's been practiced for millenia and its populations still survived enough to transmit them to offspring. If grandma made it long enough to teach the grand kids some old traditions there's probably some merit to some of them.
Circumcision is practiced by billions, yet there is no health benefits at all.
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#93Consider supplementing drinking coffee with taking l-theanine. You can read more about the benefits at https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/wiki/beginners/ Magnesium replenishment also helps, esp. with >2 cups of coffee / day.
L-Theanine is great when combining with coffee, but at least for me when I've experiment with this combination, if doing it routinely, it really can start to deplete maybe the serotonin levels or something in my brain, because I start to feel more dull in a way, it's hard to describe, it's kinda like this slight fuzziness. Just for more info, I've been experimenting with 200 mg of L-theanine combined with one cup of…
That's interesting, your findings are contrary to what's generally reported. I haven't found data confirming any negative side effects for l-theanine including prolonged use. I suppose it all depends on an individual and dosage of all stimulants.
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#94We seem way too focused on whether coffee is good or bad for our health. All I know is it tastes fucking delicious, it makes me feel good, and we've been drinking it for generations. If I die earlier because of it, then so be it. At least I'll have had an enjoyable coffee-drinking life.
> If I die earlier because of it, then so be it. At least I'll have had an enjoyable coffee-drinking life. On the other hand if coffee drinking causes strokes you could live for years with severe impairment.
I'll take my chances and just not worry about it :)
I don't think I've ever heard of a person in old age lamenting, "If only I hadn't enjoyed coffee so much!"
Cigarettes on the other hand...the effects of those are a lot more clear-cut.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
In some sense traditional medicine or traditional\religious healthy habits (I'm thinking something like kashrut) has way larger sample since it's been practiced for millenia and its populations still survived enough to transmit them to offspring. If grandma made it long enough to teach the grand kids some old traditions there's probably some merit to some of them.
Circumcision is practiced by billions, yet there is no health benefits at all.
Less STDs because of the hardened skin. Look it up.
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#96I think this kind of information is funded by the caffeine industry. This is pure insanity. It took me a month to quick coffee (IT professional here) and to stop hating my life. Another 5 months to finally get completely over it where I didn't feel like I was dragging every day. Now, I am free from coffee addiction and happy as I have ever been. No way in hell is that stuff good for you. Read Caffeine Blues, it will…
I developed a stomach condition in 2014 that prevented me from eating fried foods, caffeine, alcohol and red meat. It took almost a year before my cravings went away but after I never felt so good.
"I completely changed my lifestyle and never felt so good, therefore coffee is bad."
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#97We all have gene in our liver for making enzyme that breaks down caffeine. Due to small genetic differences, some of us have enzyme that breaks down caffeine quickly and others that breaks it down slowly. If you win genetic lottery and produce enzyme that breaks down caffeine fast then you flush out caffeine and end up reaping benefits of antioxidants found in coffee beans. If you have enzyme that breaks down caffein…
This. I’m a slow caffeine metabolizer and had to give up caffeine.
How do you determine you are a slow metabolizer of caffeine?
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#98So the article touched on this briefly but I think it's a point worth exploring: a big problem with many sources of caffeine is also that sugar confuses the issue. Many people have an excessive amount of sugar with their coffee (personally I find coffee revolting and 4+ sugars is the only way I could cope if I were forced to drink it). Other caffeinated drinks (eg sodas) are either sweetened (sugar or HFCS or have ar…
> Anyway I think it's impossible to talk about caffeine consumption without also considering sugar consumption because they really do go hand in hand. Not for everyone - there are people who drink coffee black with no sugar (especially espresso drinkers).
I always drink my coffee black. I don't drink the stronger blends like you might get in a French roast or at Starbucks. I do dring espresso however a few times a year.
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#99previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15679522
The relative risk vs coffee consumption curve fist goes below 1.0 (no coffee = 1.0) and reaches minimum around 3-5 cups then starts to increase slowly again. cardiovascular disease and stroke risk go above 1.0 after 9-10 cups per day.
The study mentions that results may not apply to unfiltered coffee (eg, French press, Scandinavian boiled, or Turkish/Greek coffee). Other studies have shown that cholesterol-raising factor in coffee does not pass a paper filter.
NOTE: Cholesterol increasing effect in coffee is not from dietary cholesterol. It comes from cafestol and kahweol (diterpenes). They seem to have adverse effect to cholesterol regulation in the body, http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.nutr.17.1.3...
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
In some sense traditional medicine or traditional\religious healthy habits (I'm thinking something like kashrut) has way larger sample since it's been practiced for millenia and its populations still survived enough to transmit them to offspring. If grandma made it long enough to teach the grand kids some old traditions there's probably some merit to some of them.
Circumcision is practiced by billions, yet there is no health benefits at all.
That's not true at all. Circumcision is linked to lower rates of penile cancer, lower rates of STD infection (probably why cancer rates are lower) particularly HIV and lower rates of bladder infections. In fact it was recommended that circumcision be standard practice in areas of Africa with high HIV rates.