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How to Combat Stress, Prevent Depression, and Memory Loss Too

6/16/2015

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You guessed it - with caffeine!

With politicians and other do-gooders in the good old USA clamoring to save us from the evil of caffeine (and ourselves, so they can control us), it’s surprising scientists have not gone along with the bewitched caffeine hunt. Just the opposite - they have had the temerity to study caffeine’s effects, that turn out to be quite beneficial. How dare they! 

So it falls on us to tell you the good news....

BENEFIT No. 1:   COMBAT STRESS

Rodrigo Cunha from Portugal's University of Coimbra and his team fed mice drinking water with caffeine added, then put some of the animals under stress.

"If the animal is not stressed there isn't a very evident change in physiological parameters or behavior," he said.

"However, if you introduce changes to the lifestyle of the animals, what we see is they cope much better."

Surprise - caffeine had a CALMING effect on the mice. Who would've thought?


BENEFIT No. 2:    PREVENT MEMORY LOSS

Professor Cunha and his team also found that caffeine blocked a stress-related compound in the body and prevented associated issues such as memory loss.

"What caffeine is doing is not making the system work better; what caffeine is doing is leading the system away from going into the wrong way of working," he says.

"So it's prevention, not an improvement."

I’m sure that’s just fine with the rest of us, isn't it?


BENEFIT No. 3:   REDUCE DEPRESSION

Citing from his previous studies, Professor Cunha also found evidence that caffeine could help with depression. However, it was not clear previously whether it was the act of buying caffeine containing drinks or food, or caffeine itself, which cheered people up.

"This study was the first to establish a causal link," says he. 

"All factors were controlled. The only variable was the intake of caffeine."

Since humans have very different brains to mice (although one wonders sometimes), further investigation is needed. Nevertheless this study is a step towards better treatment for stress and associated illnesses. 

Amen...!

Source:  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-09/study-finds-caffeine-combats-stress-memory-loss/6530818



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Make Love Not Coffee

5/21/2015

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All right... this riff is about the very latest findings regarding caffeine's effects on ED (erectile dysfunction) hence, of course, love making. 

More precisely....

this is about the result of a study from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Researchers found that men who drink approximately two to three cups of coffee a day show a lower risk of erectile dysfunction.

Their study, that appeared in the April issue of the open-access journal PLOS ONE looked at data from a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which involved over 3,700 men 20 years old and above. The data showed that men who drank between 85 and 170 milligrams of caffeine a day were 42 percent less likely to suffer from ED, and men who drank between 171 and 303 milligrams per day had a 39 percent lower chance, according to the journal's abstract.

Sounds positively upstanding, doesn't it?  

Seriously - what's the correlation? 

The research suggests that caffeine leads to the relaxation of arteries in the penis, as well as the muscle that lines its cavernous body, thus increasing blood flow.

The data even show that men who are obese or suffer from hypertension - two factors that can lead to ED - may still experience a drop in their chances of suffering from the condition, if they fall into the same caffeine intake range. 

Diabetic men are the exception, as "diabetes is one of the strongest risk factors for ED," according to David S. Lopez, lead author of the study and an assistant professor at UT Health's Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Services Department.

This explains the love making part... and achieving instant nirvana with CaffeinAll™, instead of mucking around to make coffee - or spending big bucks over time on it - spells out the part about "Not Coffee,"  doesn't it?


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Healthy caffeine:  Study Proves It Can Ward off Breast Cancer

4/22/2015

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Several studies have been published lately, suggesting that  the caffeine in coffee reduces the risk of various types of cancer, and also may help avoid its recurrence.

In particular, those who drink at least four cups of coffee daily have a 20 percent lower risk of skin cancer (malignant melanoma) than those drinking the least, according to a recent research by the US National Cancer Institute.

For men who drink over six cups of coffee per day, the risk of getting a fatal cancer is reduced by 60 percent, while three cups a day diminish it by 30 percent, according to the 2011 study, also by the National Cancer Institute.

“ Caffeine turns off the signal paths to breast cancer cells. This results in slower cell proliferation and increased cell death,” said Ann Rosendahl, a researcher at Lund University and co-author of the study.

The study began two years ago, when scientists at Lund University showed that a couple of cups of coffee per day could help avoid the recurrence of breast cancer.

The pattern was noticeable especially in those women who were treated with the anti-hormone medication Tamoxifen.

“For the women treated with tamoxifen and who drank at least two cups of coffee a day, the risk of relapse is almost half that of those who drank a small quantity of coffee or no coffee at all,”  according to Rosendahl.

It turns out that caffeine has an impact on the signaling pathways that cancer needs to grow.

"We have now gone down into the cellular level and thus gained a greater understanding of the underlying causes,”  Rosendahl explains.

As many as 1,100 women took part in the study, of whom over 500 were taking the drug Tamoxifen.  
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Caffeine protects against multiple sclerosis, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine study finds

3/4/2015

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Our study shows that coffee intake may also protect against MS, supporting the idea that caffeine may have protective effects for the brain,” said study author Ellen Mowry, MD, MCR, with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and a member of the American Academy of Neurology. 

For the study, researchers looked at a Swedish study of 1,629 people with MS and 2,807 healthy people, and a U.S. study of 1,159 people with MS and 1,172 healthy people. The studies characterized coffee consumption among persons with MS one and five years before MS symptoms began (as well as 10 years before MS symptoms began in the Swedish study) and compared it to coffee consumption of people who did not have MS at similar time periods. 

They also accounted for other factors such as age, sex, smoking, body mass index, and sun exposure habits. The Swedish study found that compared to people who drank at least six cups of coffee per day during the year before symptoms appeared, those who did not drink coffee had about a one and a half times increased risk of developing MS. 

Drinking large amounts of coffee five or 10 years before symptoms started was similarly protective. In the US study, people who didn’t drink coffee were also about one and a half times more likely to develop the disease than those who drank four or more cups of coffee per day in the year before symptoms started to develop the disease. “Caffeine should be studied for its impact on relapses and long-term disability in MS as well,” says Mowry.

You can read the AAN press release in full here.
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Federal Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee:  Caffeine helps stave off heart disease, Type-2 diabetes, and other chronic diseases.

2/26/2015

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The federal Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has finally determined that three to five coffee drinks a day is good for you, because there is scientific evidence that caffeine helps stave off heart disease, Type-2 diabetes, and other chronic diseases. 

The new recommendations take into account recent scientific studies that provide new insights into what constitutes a healthy diet. The Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Agriculture are expected to move quickly to approve the committee’s recommendations.

The committee also recommends that Americans eat more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains — a common-sense approach. But before declaring open season at the supermarket, perhaps the most important news was in the guidelines that remain. What it may have given back to Americans in dark roast, it continues to take away in added-sugar intake, particularly in sweetened beverages.

The committee found such a strong connection between added sugar and obesity, Type-2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease that its recommendations go far beyond personal intake to policy prescriptions.  It actually advocates:

  1. Beverage taxes -  because there is a shortage of taxes, isn't there?
  2. Reducing the marketing of sugary drinks to children and the availability of added sugars in school and youth settings.
  3. Running  campaigns to convince young adults to cut sugar consumption. Good luck with that!
Let's look at the bright side - they've proven caffeine (in moderation, up to 400 mg/day) to be a health saving product. Who can ask for anything more from the feds?
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