Well, this chap seems to think so, anyway: http://primalmd.tumblr.com/post/6397186790/evidence-based-practice-coffee We get a few threads on coffee, but it's a popular topic so I figured people might be interested in another one. I know what a bunch of sceptics we have on here, so feel free to agree with it, point out bits he missed or rip it to pieces as you see fit.
Coffee is my panacea! Although to be honest it is probably as much psychological as anything else as I drink so much of the damn stuff I must have a tolerance level off the charts!
My girlfriend is a big proponent of the health benefits of coffee. I'm going to try and get a few linkys from her.
Coffee has to be good for us if it's not I will lose faith in one of the few things I hold sacred.There are few things that do what coffee does to help the mind and body when said mind and body is in a miserable place.Coffee is love to me.
I tend to have a coffee now and again, though as an oriental person with gut problems it tends to make me run to the loo quite swiftly.
Excellent find. Here is some further reading with some good links from myself and Cosmic Fish. http://www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96955&highlight=caffeine
Chronic stimulant use weakens the adrenal glands, although coffee has got some health benefits to me this outweighs them.
Do you have any studies to back that up? It just sounds a little too much like the kind of loose statistic used by people with an agenda. Coffee has been studied pretty well over the years and if it posed that great a risk I'd be surprised there weren't more health warnings on the packaging. Poisons are dose dependent anyway and you would probably need to drink gallons and gallons to see any effect. Many chemicals are even beneficial at a lower dose so to group them with rat poison is a fallacy.
So you're saying that drinking coffee will help to control my over-production of adrenaline in panic situations (namely after any injection or blood test)? Given the amount that I drink, I don't think that can be true. Myth - it doesn't hydrate you as much as water does, but the net effect of drinking a cup of coffee is to increase rather than reduce your hydration levels. The diuretic effect which causes dehydration is much, much lower than the hydration you actually get from drinking a cup of mostly water. Caffeine pills, on the other hand, would dehydrate you.
I think we have a few people on here perpetuating myths. Take some time to read the links within this thread and you will see those myths have been debunked.