Is Coffee Good for You? – James Hoffmann review of scientific literature [video]
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#2Coffee doesn’t feel like something that’s good for me. But I hope it is. Regardless, I never felt good about pouring hot water in a plastic aeropress.
Re: Is Coffee Good for You? – James Hoffmann review of scientific literature [video]
#3Coffee doesn’t feel like something that’s good for me. But I hope it is. Regardless, I never felt good about pouring hot water in a plastic aeropress.
We've been conditioned that there's no free lunch. That if something feels good, it must be bad for us. It's not always true.
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#5Coffee doesn’t feel like something that’s good for me. But I hope it is. Regardless, I never felt good about pouring hot water in a plastic aeropress.
We've been conditioned that there's no free lunch. That if something feels good, it must be bad for us. It's not always true.
The more complicated version of this is "if drugs were an improvement to our overall evolutionary fitness, we'd have evolved to do what the drug does by default". This opens up interesting avenues of thought, because some drugs aren't an improvement to fitness in the ancestral environment.
Stimulants usually make you burn more energy, so they're fertile ground now that calories are cheap. Dietary energy has only been affordable for a couple of centuries, so there's not a lot of time to have evolved more wasteful bodies and minds.
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#6My mother and father gave me my genetics, they both drank coffee for many years and are still alive and cancer free into their late 70s. My great grandmother drank coffee ritually as well and lived well into her 90s. Organic coffee is likely best, as it most resembles coffee of the past which was safer to drink...
I love coffee, but noticed I get grumpy and feel a bit stiff in the joints if I drink more than one cup a day, and sometimes I alternate with tea. That's all I really need to determine what works for me. I highly recommend when conflicting media reports are everywhere to start evaluating your background like that to create calm (if you can do so of course) or simply to embrace your mortality and realize that pollution and other factors make everyone's future quite unpredictable regardless.
Re: Is Coffee Good for You? – James Hoffmann review of scientific literature [video]
#7My mother and father gave me my genetics, they both drank coffee for many years and are still alive and cancer free into their late 70s. My great grandmother drank coffee ritually as well and lived well into her 90s. Organic coffee is likely best, as it most resembles coffee of the past which was safer to drink... I love coffee, but noticed I get grumpy and feel a bit stiff in the joints if I drink more than one cup…
>a bit stiff in the joints
I found out that I am sometimes allergic to citric acid, which turns out is made from mold. If I have more than one citrus flavor drink I get sore joints. Theoretically the mold is filtered in the final product but I suspect this is not always done well. I just avoid it now but dang its in everything.
Coffee supposedly has trace mold on it could be a similar problem.
Re: Is Coffee Good for You? – James Hoffmann review of scientific literature [video]
#8My mother and father gave me my genetics, they both drank coffee for many years and are still alive and cancer free into their late 70s. My great grandmother drank coffee ritually as well and lived well into her 90s. Organic coffee is likely best, as it most resembles coffee of the past which was safer to drink... I love coffee, but noticed I get grumpy and feel a bit stiff in the joints if I drink more than one cup…
>a bit stiff in the joints I found out that I am sometimes allergic to citric acid, which turns out is made from mold. If I have more than one citrus flavor drink I get sore joints. Theoretically the mold is filtered in the final product but I suspect this is not always done well. I just avoid it now but dang its in everything. Coffee supposedly has trace mold on it could be a similar problem.
Mold that survives a 450 degree Fahrenheit (232 celcius) roasting process?
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#9Coffee doesn’t feel like something that’s good for me. But I hope it is. Regardless, I never felt good about pouring hot water in a plastic aeropress.
I've finally switched from a bodum with a silicon ring, and plastic struts, to a 100% stainless steel french press (groenenberg). Slightly worse isolation, but otherwise awesome.
Re: Is Coffee Good for You? – James Hoffmann review of scientific literature [video]
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
We've been conditioned that there's no free lunch. That if something feels good, it must be bad for us. It's not always true.
The more complicated version of this is "if drugs were an improvement to our overall evolutionary fitness, we'd have evolved to do what the drug does by default". This opens up interesting avenues of thought, because some drugs aren't an improvement to fitness in the ancestral environment. Stimulants usually make you burn more energy, so they're fertile ground now that calories are cheap. Dietary energy has only been…
This. If the reward cycle for a hyper brain was shorter, we would all be genius mental colibris, but then easily exhausted to tupor and would have these debates over stimulants to extend the hyper or reduce byproducts of accelarated "normal" consciousness.