THE 9 SURPRISING HEALTH BENEFITS OF COFFEE!

Hey guys, hello and welcome to Total Health with Dr. Nick. Today I want to talk to you about one of my favorite topics and that is coffee, the nine health benefits of drinking coffee. And I know you're probably thinking, well wait a minute, I've been told coffee is bad for me. Well guys, that is one of the furthest things from the truth. In fact, my daughter yesterday said to me, she goes, daddy doesn't coffee stunt your growth? And I said, no honey, that's not a, that's not a truth, that's an old wife's tale. But anyway, coffee's got some amazing health benefits. So in this video, I'm going to be talking to you about the nine health benefits of coffee. And I want you to feel good about it. I want you to feel good about drinking coffee, because I'll tell you what, this little bean that you see, the coffee is probably one of the, the most amazing drinks, beverages to drink because of all the health benefits. But too, it makes you feel good. You feel good when you drink coffee. So I want you to feel even better about your coffee today. And guys, if you like this video, please like it, share it, subscribe and comment. Give me your comments. Let me know what you think. Anyway, let's dive on in. So number one, coffee is anti-aging. That's right. You live longer drinking coffee. So studies have been done. In fact, a couple of large studies done with 700,000 people. So this is a big study, said this, it was published in the annals of medicine, July, 2017. And they found that they looked at roughly 700,000 people from different cultures, different backgrounds, different ethnicities. And they found that drinking coffee was linked to a lower risk of death. So the first study, what that showed was this, non-white populations found drinking two to four cups of coffee had translated into a 18% lower risk of death during the study. So that's right. By drinking coffee, it actually added years onto your life because it lowered your mortality. In the second study, actually, let me go back to the first one real quick. Drinking more coffee appeared to lower the chances of dying from cancer, from heart disease, from stroke, kidney disease, diabetes, and chronic lower respiratory disease. So yes, coffee is beneficial at lowering your mortality rates, helping you live longer, but also preventing many of the different diseases that we see today in our societies all over the world. Second study said this, they looked at people living in 10 European countries, finding that the top coffee drinkers were 25% less likely to die during a 16-year study compared to non-coffee drinkers. So once again, major studies here, 700,000 people in this study proved that drinking coffee actually helped you to live longer. Number two, and we see this all the time, is fat burning. In fact, if you look at most of the energy drinks today or fat burning drinks, they all contain caffeine in it. So caffeine has been linked to fat burning because it basically raises your metabolic rate, maximizing your ability to burn fat. So like I said, guys, so many times we go to the gym now, I'm drinking a coffee before I go there, usually black. Sometimes it just has a little bit of a sweetener in it, but I feel great during my workouts. It elevates the workouts to higher levels, and we're going to be talking about that in just a moment as one of the other health benefits with endurance and productivity. So number three, I tell you, you never would have thought of coffee as an antioxidant, but it is one of the best. In fact, unfortunately, because of the standard American diet or the SAD diet, coffee makes up about 70% of your antioxidants here in America. So guys, because we eat so poorly, we're having to rely on coffee now as one of our major sources of antioxidants, but it is a good one. Research shows that the average cup of coffee may contain more polyphenol, antioxidants, than cocoa, green tea, black, and herbal teas. And some of those are very well known to have huge amounts of antioxidants, especially your black tea, your green tea, your herbal teas, very high in antioxidants. And to think that coffee pars up with that and does even better. Two of the key compounds responsible for coffee's health benefits are chlorogenic and caffeic acid, which coffee beans are the best source from in the world. So these two major antioxidants, coffee beans, just happen to be the highest and best source for these two antioxidants. Coffee has also been shown to increase antioxidant load in the body that we call plasma antioxidant capacity. So once again, guys, it will start to actually increase the amount of antioxidants that are in your circulating blood system. Also, caffeine found in coffee beans has been shown to act as a safeguard against malignant cells. So it actually acts as a safeguard by modulating these detoxifying enzymes. So it could actually help prevent cancer, another great benefit of coffee. In fact, a 2017 study found that frequent coffee drinkers were at an 18 percent decreased risk for cancer. So with cancer being one of the top two disease killers in our society, isn't it great to know that coffee can actually help benefit by fighting cancer by preventing malignant cell growth? Now, I'm not saying it's the only thing. That doesn't mean you go out and just trash your body and have a bad diet and don't do all the other things that are important to prevent cancer. But at least you know coffee is on your side, so you don't have to worry about being against you. Next, coffee is one of the leading contributors of disease-fighting antioxidants in the American diet. As I said, 70 percent of your antioxidants are coming from coffee in our sad American diet. Because it reduces inflammation, which is the root cause of many diseases, research shows that coffee is now being linked to lowering or helping with the following benefits of improved heart health, okay? Cancer protection, diabetes protection, fights depression, helps with asthma, and so much more. So a major disease fighter, because of the fact that coffee and the caffeine can help reduce inflammation in a body, it helps actually prevent many of the different diseases that we see in our standard American diet or American society today. Moving on to number four, and that is helps brain function and prevents cognitive decline. So it actually can help your brain, and you know that because you feel good when you drink coffee. You drink coffee, you get that buzz, and depending on the type of roast, you can get more or less of a buzz. Turns out that the darker the roast actually has less caffeine in it, so that might be something to think about for all you French press roasters out there, or guys who like to drink really the hardcore dark coffees. Evidence exists that beneficial antioxidants in coffee may protect against Parkinson's disease, which is once again a major brain disease we see today, along with Alzheimer's, and acting as a natural Alzheimer's disease treatment. So once again it helps with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. In animal studies, mice given caffeine in their drinking water for young adulthood into their older age showed protection against memory impairment and lowered brain levels of the abnormal protein amyloid protein, and that's one of the things we see with Alzheimer's is these amyloid proteins, these plaques that are inside the brain, so it shows that caffeine and coffee are actually beneficial to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. So keep that in mind, no pun intended. Anti-depression, another thing with dealing with the mind, and we know that you drink, you feel good after drinking coffee. In fact, the caffeine that's in it, my wife has a sign in our house, it's like a little plaque on the wall that says something like, you know, doesn't matter what the question is, chocolate is the answer, you know. So anyway, caffeine helps with that. Anti-depressant, 2011 Harvard study showed that women who drank four or more cups per day had a 20% lower risk of depression and were 53% less likely to commit suicide. That is huge, guys, because ladies suffer from depression a lot because of different hormone imbalances, especially after childbirth, the hormones are fluctuating so much, especially when they go into the menopausal years, a lot of hormone fluctuations, and it turns out that coffee is actually very good for that. And here's the thing too, many of us think, well, maybe it's just one or two cups a day, but in a lot of this research that I've been going through, they're saying you could drink as much as six cups a day. Now, I typically have about three, I like one in the morning, one in the noon when I go in for lunch, and one in dinner. So that's about it for me, sometimes in between, if I'm going to go work out, but you can have as much as six cups a day, they're saying. A similar study in the Archives of Internal Medicine, women who drank two to three cups of coffee per day were less likely to be depressed while also receiving, while also having a decreased risk of acquiring depression. So once again, two different studies showing how beneficial coffee is for depression. Number six, number six is increased endurance and physical performance. Studies show that coffee increases alertness, and we all know this. How many times do guys go into any type of sporting event where it requires this type of sharp focus, or physical endurance, or stamina, or quickness, acceleration, and you maybe have some coffee before you go out? A lot of guys are using coffee as one of their secret weapons before they work out, so they go in and have a, either walk in with a coffee, or they'll have a black coffee or something on the way to the gym. That's one of the things I like to do. 2013 report published by the School of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Birmingham found that athletic performance times were significantly faster among adult men who drank caffeine drinks and coffee prior to their exercising. So once again, the benefits of coffee also increased endurance and physical performance. Number seven, heart health. Okay, heart health and preventing cardiovascular disease. Turns out, guys, that recent studies have shown that consuming three to four cups of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee, so it doesn't even have to be, you know, coffee with caffeine in it, could even be decaffeinated coffee in this case, reduced cardiovascular related death by 19%. That is significant. That's almost, that's like, you know, that's a huge amount of people, that's one out of five people roughly, that are benefiting from cardiovascular disease or avoiding it by just drinking coffee. And cardiovascular disease by 15% compared to non-consuming caffeine at all. Also, unfiltered coffee, and I'm not exactly sure what that means, but I'm sure it means that you're getting maybe some of the grinds in it or some of the, you know, a lot of times when you make certain coffees, you'll see a lot of that. It's almost like a, not a powder at the bottom, but almost like a residue at the bottom of the cup. So maybe that's what they're referring to here. Unfiltered coffee is a significant source of, and I don't know if I'm pronouncing some of these right, cafestol and coagulant antioxidants, which have been implicated in cholesterol balancing effects of coffee. So those of you out there who are concerned about your cholesterol levels, which go back and look at some of my previous videos, cholesterol is not as big an issue as you think. In fact, it's very healthy for you. It is also an antioxidant and it's made up in your brain. So you've got a lot of cholesterol in your brain, very, very necessary. But if you are concerned about your cholesterol levels, coffee could be one of the answers too. Look into that and maybe it'll help to balance your cholesterol levels. Also, in addition, coffee intake is associated with lower risk of heart failure and stroke and arrhythmia. Now, even though sometimes people have those jitters, that's not an arrhythmia, that's just muscle tension. That's all it is is muscle twitching that's going on. But coffee has been beneficial for, as I said, heart failure, stroke, and heart arrhythmias. One Dutch study showed that people who drank two to four cups of coffee daily, it lowered the risk of heart disease once again. It's this 20% number, guys, 20%, 19%. One out of five people can be helped by drinking coffee. The benefits of coffee for heart disease are fantastic, or preventing it, I should say. Number eight, okay, so we have two more, but so far they've been good. Number eight may even help prevent diabetes. Who would have thought? Who would have thought drinking coffee could actually benefit diabetes? But what it's saying is this, there's a good deal of evidence that drinking coffee, now here it says six or more cups a day, could significantly lower the risk of type 2 diabetes. According to a nurse's health study, two or three cups a day often can help lower the incidence of type 2 diabetes and decrease gallstone formation. So another study has believed that the chlorogenic acid, the same antioxidant that provides cancer-reducing benefits, might also reduce, and I think this is the key to where it's showing how it helps benefit the diabetes even more, it helps to reduce the absorption of glucose from sugary and high-carbohydrate foods. I think that's it right in a nutshell right there. Because it can help reduce the absorption of the sugar or the glucose from these sugary foods and that helps to keep your blood sugar down. Number nine helps protect the liver. Several studies consistently show that coffee drinkers have a reduced risk of abnormal liver functional tests. Okay, so it's beneficial to helping the liver. A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that coffee may protect against alcoholic liver disease. Now isn't that fantastic? Because so many people, unfortunately in many of our cultures and societies, do drink a lot. So wouldn't this be great if drinking coffee along with it, maybe not at the same time, you're not doing both, but drinking coffee along with it helps benefit to where you can help protect yourself from alcohol liver disease. So guys, I hope this information was good for you. I hope you got a lot out of it. I hope you feel better about drinking your coffee in the morning and your afternoon or your night, whatever it may be. It will not stunt your growth. Vittoria, my daughter, who thinks that. But coffee's actually got a lot of health benefits. Now I'm not telling you to drink it all day long like as if it's your only source of liquids, but it could be added to your diet to alert mental alertness for liver function, for heart function, for antioxidant properties, to reduce other types of diseases, you name it. Fat-burning coffee can be the answer. So guys, I want you to feel good about drinking your coffee. 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