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When
I was young and naive, I use to despise coffee. Not because I believed that it
had any sort of negative effects, but because of the idea of using something
that I falsely believed to be nothing more than a stimulant, never sat well
with me.
That
was also the time when I truly believed that I was in perfect health. During
this same time, my cholesterol and blood pressure started to rise and along
with the emergence of a number of small and relatively subtle hypothyroidism
symptoms that I chose to dismiss and ignore.
I
continued to ignore coffee until I began to really study the effects of diet
and the foods we eat on our human physiology. I actually started to understand
how coffee affected my own physiology and that it was NOT just some sort of
stimulant. It was much, much more than that. That’s when I started using it
therapeutically with myself and my clients with quite amazing results.
The
sheer fact that coffee alone has been shown to decrease mortality rates and
increase longevity should be more than enough to convince most sceptics that
there’s much more to coffee than meets the eye.
Aside
from the mere fact that coffee will help you live longer, there have been a
number of other recent studies on coffee showing the truly wide range of health
benefits it has to offer. One such recent study was on caffeine and its effects
on skin cancer.
Caffeine’s
Effects on The Most Common Cancer
The
most common cancer found today is a form of skin cancer called basal-cell
carcinoma, affecting as many as 30% of people in their lifetime.
A
recent study was published on the effects of caffeine on skin cancer where
112,897 people were followed over a 20 year period. Over this period of time,
22,786 people were diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
Increased Caffeine Intake Is
Associated with Reduced Risk of Basal Cell Carcinoma of the Skin
Our findings argue
that caffeine intake in men and women are inversely associated with risk of
BCC.
Caffeine
intake was analysed throughout this study with respect to diet including tea,
cola, and chocolate which are also sources of dietary caffeine aside from
coffee.
While
these other sources of caffeine did help protect against this cancer, coffee
proved to provide the most significant protection, likely because of the higher
caffeine content as well as the additional nutrients that coffee provides.
Sorry
to be the bearer of bad news for all of the decaf drinkers out there, but decaf
coffee did not provide the same protective benefits.
The
results of this study were also backed by the results of mice studies which
have demonstrated the same effects on skin cancer.
Coffee
is More Than Just a Food
If
you believe that skin cancer is the only form of cancer that coffee helps to
protect you against, then you would be greatly mistaken.
There
are many other very common forms of cancer that coffee and caffeine help to
protect against including breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer,
just to name a few.
It’s
time that we stop looking at coffee as just some food and start seeing it for
its true potential as an important nutrient that can help restore dysfunction
and maintain the healthy function of the human body.
But
it’s also important to use it correctly which most people do not. Today, most
people rely on coffee just to get them through the day while ignoring the
importance of their diet to their health.
Coffee
should be looked at and used as a supplement, and therefore play a role in
supplementing an already health diet.
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Author Bio:
Tom Brimeyer – The
author of Hypothyroidism Revolution – is a practitioner of functional medicine,
health researcher and author on nutrition, hormones and hypothyroidism.
His personal
mission is to inspire and educate people to take control and achieve true
health by correcting their hypothyroidism and underlying causes of their health
problems instead of being stuck relying on doctors and drugs that merely cover
up their symptoms while their health continues to suffer.
