Study Finds Drinking Coffee Could Reduce Risk Of Cirrhosis

The research of analyzed data of over 430,000 participants discovered that drinking two additional cups of coffee each day reduced the risk of developing liver cirrhosis by 44 percent.

“Cirrhosis is potentially fatal, and there is no cure as such”, lead researcher Oliver Kennedy from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom told The Washington Post.

That’s solid, especially compared to people who only have one cup a day, which lowers your risk of cirrhosis by 22 percent.

The study is the latest in a long series which have suggested that a coffee habit could make you healthier. It’s worth noting this doesn’t mean a coffee reverses liver damage caused by drinking too much – it’s just associated with a reduced risk of developing cirrhosis in the future. If four cups of Starbucks coffee was consumed in a day, then this would decline by 65 percent!

Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College in London, claimed previous year that while junk food kills the gut bacteria that can help keep people thin, Belgian beer and coffee increases them, meaning coffee can help fight obesity. The most common causes of liver cirhossis are hepatitis C, fatty liver disease and alcohol consumption.

Dr. Reddy says in order to figure out whether it’s the caffeine in coffee affecting the ability to develop cirrhosis, controlled studies that follow patients for several years need to be done. “Coffee has been inversely associated with all-cause mortality, neurological diseases and a number of different cancers”.

“Unfortunately, although coffee contains compounds that have antioxidant effects and anti-inflammatory properties, drinking a few cups of coffee a day can not undo the systematic damage that is the result of being overweight or obese, sedentary, excessive alcohol consumption or drastically mitigate an unhealthy diet”, Heller said by email.