#259 Why you should drink 2-3 cups of coffee everyday with Alex Higham
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re diving deep into the wonderful world of coffee with my good friend Alex Higham.
In this episode we talk about the attributes of coffee and why it seems to have benefits for brain and heart health. We also talk through the healthiest brewing methods for coffee from espresso, to aeropress, to cafetiere and Alex’s experiments looking at the caffeine content of different brewing styles.
We talk about how sourcing and roasting methods can affect the polyphenol concentration of the coffee beans and hence the health benefits and how you can choose the best tasting coffee with these in mind. I also ask Alex the questions that I get asked all the time such as how often should I change the beans, when should I drink coffee and what if I can’t tolerate caffeine?
Alex is co-founder of Exhale Healthy Coffee, the UK’s first coffee crafted for health. After 8 years grappling with auto-immunity, Alex is now on a mission to help others regain control of their health starting with the thing most people consume vast quantities of, their coffee.
As a disclaimer, I must mention that I am an advisor to Exhale coffee the company, and I sincerely love everything that Exhale is about. From rigorous sourcing and independently lab testing their beans to ensure no contaminants, it’s how food products should be made, and it’s a privilege to be part of their incredible journey.
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| 0:00.0 | Doctors Kitchen. |
| 0:02.7 | Recipes Health Lifestyle. |
| 0:04.6 | There's nothing else in our diet at 60 per cup. |
| 0:07.2 | It adds so many polyphenols. |
| 0:09.1 | It's such benefits to your health, you know, and that is so delicious and that is that also you're not just |
| 0:14.8 | trusting in long-term health benefit you're also getting like an instant hit of |
| 0:20.6 | energy for some people you know and it and it gives you a lot a lot of instant gratification as well as long-term health benefits. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen Podcast, the show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition, and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 1:00.1 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 1:16.5 | Today we are diving deep into the wonderful world of coffee with my good friend Alex Hyam. In this episode we talk about the attributes of coffee and why it seems to have benefits for brain and heart health. We also talk through the |
| 1:21.7 | healthiest brewing methods for coffee from espresso to area press and |
| 1:27.0 | cafeteria. Plus we also dive into Alex's own experiments looking at the caffeine content of different brewing styles using his |
| 1:36.2 | fancy new machine. We also talk about sourcing and roasting methods and how that can affect the polyphenyl concentration of coffee beans and hence the health benefits and how you can choose the best tasting coffee with these in mind. |
| 1:51.6 | I also ask Alex the questions that I get asked all the time such as |
| 1:56.4 | how often should I change the beans when should I drink coffee and what if I can't |
| 2:02.1 | tolerate caffeine. Alex if you don't know is co-founder of |
| 2:06.2 | Exhale coffee the UK's first coffee company crafted for health and after eight |
| 2:11.8 | years of grappling with his own auto-immunity issues, |
| 2:14.8 | Alex is now on a mission to help others regain control of their health, starting with the thing that most people |
| 2:20.5 | consume vast quantities of their coffee. |
| 2:24.5 | And as a disclaimer, I must mention that I am an advisor |
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