8 replies to this topic

[olaf.larsson]

I know that coffe (caffein?) inhibits DNA-PK which is associated to DNA-damage detection. Strangely though, coffe drinkers neighter seem to age faster or have higher cancer rates than other people. How could it be. I also know that coffe increases the sensitivity for insuline which is a beneficial health effect. Please post your suggestions about coffe drinking, and interesting links or papers if you have any.

[John Schloendorn]

Hehe I dunno about coffee literature, but if it were as you say, then it would argue against the contribution of nuclear mutations to the aging phenotype. (Brace yourselves! There may be a storm coming up.)

[hightrain]

That is a good question.

I am in great shape and very good health. I exercise, work out, and eat healthy. Yet I have a sweet tooth for coffee. Almost two cups a day.

I would like to know how harmful coffee is. I sure as heck don't feel like crap. Who knows?

[Jay the Avenger]

Modest amounts of coffee are not bad for your health. Better yet: drinking coffee reduces your chances of livercancer. See betterhumans.com for details.

Hightrain: having 2 cups of coffee hardly counts as 'having a sweet tooth' for it.

(I drink 2 myself as well )

[Infernity]

I think that the only bad in coffee is the sugar we put in (or the sugar that's already there, depends on which kind), and the caffeine which there are types without it, although caffeine is sometimes what you need to get in the morning for waking up...

Found this:

[>] http://www.ncbi.nlm....1&dopt=Citation

[>] http://www.ncbi.nlm....0&dopt=Citation

[>] http://content.nejm....act/327/16/1109

Yours
~Infernity

[adolfo]

Actually, coffee can decrease insulin resistance.

http://www.ncbi.nlm....t_uids=11815511

[Mark Hamalainen]

If it weren't for coffee, I'd probably sleep two more hours each day, so its actually extending my subjective life span! (2 cups/day for me too)

[DJS]

Yep, two cups here as well (with splenda which is the bomb).

[Infernity]

I drink coffee about 2 times a week...

I hope you guys don't put sugar in heh I strictly am not.

Yours truthfully
~Infernity