10 Amazing Reasons Why You Must Drink Coffee

Rumor has it that coffee dates back to the 15th century when an Ethiopian farmer found odd berries growing on trees. At first, he likely didn’t know that they were coffee, or of the health benefits of coffee. Kaldi, the Ethiopian farmer, discovered that these berries gave his goats enough energy that they did not want to sleep.

Energy-boosting is one of the first known health benefits of coffee. Kaldi passed the word onto nearby monks who made the berries into a kind of drink that would keep them awake in the same way that it did the goats. It did not take long for the word of these beans to reach the Arabian peninsula and from there to the most of the inhabited world.

Your daily cup of coffee may be doing more for you than providing that early-morning pick-me-up. The health impact of coffee has long been a controversial topic, with advocates touting its antioxidant activity and brain-boosting ability, and detractors detailing downsides such as insomnia, indigestion and an increased heart rate and blood pressure.

But the latest wave of scientific evidence brings a wealth of good news for coffee lovers. Here are 10 reasons drinking coffee may be healthier for you than you thought.

# Fiber

A cup of coffee has one point eight grams fiber. It does not seem like a lot, but it is a source. Fiber is needed to keep your digestion tract going well and to keep you feeling full for longer.

# Energy

Coffee is famous for giving people more energy. The caffeine from the coffee is taken into your blood and the blood brings the drug everywhere else. The caffeine increases the levels of dopamine and norepinephrine by stopping adenosine.

By increasing norepinephrine and dopamine, coffee also increases energy levels, memory, mental function, vigilance, and your overall mood.

# Type Two Diabetes

Studies have shown that coffee decreases the chances of developing type two diabetes. While the ‘why’ is unknown, it is known that a cup of coffee every day lowers the chances of type two by seven percent.

# Exercise Performance

Drinking a strong cup of coffee half an hour to an hour before going to the gym can help you lose even more weight. The caffeine in the coffee breaks fat down to give you more fuel, it makes more adrenaline which can also make you feel the fight-or-flight, and the caffeine can just boost overall physical performances by 11 or 12 percent.

# Dementia and Alzheimer’s

There are a few tips that you often hear for keeping Alzheimer’s at bay or slowing it down at the very least. Those are the ideas of exercise, reading more, playing more word games like word searches and crossword, jigsaw puzzles.

Most people are not going to mention that people who drink coffee have a 65% smaller chance of getting Alzheimer’s or Dementia than people who do not drink coffee.

# Liver

Four cups of coffee a day is said to lower the chances of liver failure, cirrhosis, fatty liver, and hepatitis by 80 percent.

# Depression

Drinking coffee daily has been found to lower the levels of depression in most people by at least 20 percent. On top of that, people who drink coffee are 53 percent less likely to commit suicide than people who do not drink coffee. This is because of the increased levels of dopamine that the caffeine helps to create.

# Parkinson’s

Parkinson’s is another neurodegenerative disease like Dementia or Alzheimer’s. The thing with Parkinson’s is that coffee, when at least a cup is drunk a day, lower the chances of getting it by 32 to 60 percent. It is not too odd that decaf coffee does not help, however. Parkinson’s is caused by the death of neurons in your brain that make dopamine. If you drink coffee, the caffeine assists in dopamine. So while Parkinson’s does not yet have a cure, it is possible that coffee can slow it down.

# Cancer

All of the good that coffee can do for your liver extends to keeping the liver safe from cancer. The other kind of cancer that coffee can help to protect you against is colorectal cancer. Drinking coffee every day lowers the chances of colorectal cancer by 15 percent and liver cancer by 40 percent.

# Longer Life

Have you ever heard of blue zones? The places where most of the population has a life expectancy of over 100 years old? When these places are studied, is it often asked how the people got to be as old as they are? Many of talk about what they eat, and it is not uncommon to hear that a cup of coffee every day as part of the diet. So while the coffee may no be directly related to a longer life, it could be worth a try.