Espresso coffee: is it good or bad?

To whom could a coffee improve health?

Coffee is an international drink and is particularly loved by Italians. There are few who do not consume coffee and who do not love it. Italian coffee differs from most coffees around the world. The espresso, as we define it, is creamier, thicker, narrower than all other types of coffee. Why espresso? Because unlike other types, we consume it in a couple of sips. We do not carry it with us, to be clear, as seen in American films, in the big paper cup. There are many times of the day when a coffee break is what you need. What we don't know about coffee is its effect on the body. Many have written about coffee and coffee lovers find it difficult to give up its taste.

Let's consider coffee from the point of view of oriental medicine: a warming food, of a yang nature that stimulates the intestines and contributes to a greater contraction of some organs such as the heart and liver. Coffee stimulates the heart function, accelerating beats and intoxicates the liver, in its digestive function. There is a way to use coffee that becomes beneficial and healthy: it is very far from how we are used to using it in the West. Always inspired by oriental practices, coffee can be used to carry out a deep cleansing of the liver and gallbladder. What? Taking it not by the traditional route we know, that is, by mouth, but through the intestines. One of the healthiest practices is coffee-based enteroceles that becomes a real panacea for the health of our liver. Recent research has shown that coffee protects the heart from aging and repairs damaged cells in the heart and beyond, it is good for you and prevents many diseases.

Over 200 studies have shown that consuming three or four cups of coffee a day reduces the chance of suffering from heart disease by 19%. Drinking four cups of espresso a day is good for heart health. Caffeine, in fact, protects us from aging and even repairs damaged cells. This was demonstrated by a team of German researchers from the Faculty of Medicine of the Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf and the IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, who conducted a series of experiments with mice and human cells in culture.

The German study, the details of which were published in the authoritative scientific journal PloS Biology, is only the latest in chronological order to emphasize the benefits of coffee for the heart. Recently, Australian researchers have shown that up to three cups a day (about 350 milligrams of caffeine) would be safe for health even in the presence of heart problems, since they would be able to reduce even cardiac arrhythmias. An international research team has determined that four cups can reduce the risk of death, heart attack, cancer, diabetes, dementia and other diseases.

Continuing with the benefits brought by the consumption of coffee, it seems that it is also able to counteract type 2diabetes; According to numerous studies, in fact, a cup of coffee a day would reduce the risk of developing it by 7%. In addition, the most frequent users would be 18% less likely to get cancer. And, based on calculations from a meta-analysis of studies on coffee intake and brain health, those who drink it regularly are about 16% less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's, dementia or cognitive decline. In addition to being a panacea for the heart and brain (and not only), drinking coffee is also good for mood. A study carried out on as many as 50,000 women showed that a cup of coffee a week reduces the risk of suffering from depression by 15%. And the percentage increases to 20% in the case of two or three cups a day.

And if you still don't want to make a nice coffee, perhaps the results of an impressive study of over 500,000 people in Europe will make you want to sip a cup right away. This great research, in fact, would show that drinking coffee makes you live longer. Over a 16-year span, men who drank three or more cups a day reduced the likelihood of dying by 12 percent. Similar consumption for women reduced the odds by 7%.