The REAL Reason You Should Drink Coffee

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about some of the health benefits of drinking coffee. Remember, don’t drink coffee if it gives you anxiety, increases your heart rate, or prevents you from sleeping. Too much coffee can increase cortisol and adrenaline, so limit your daily coffee intake to one cup.

Caffeine is a phytochemical found in coffee and other plants. Caffeine keeps us awake by inhibiting a compound called adenosine. Coffee can give you mental acuity, help you focus, and improve your ability to learn. It speeds up the rate of metabolism and helps regulate blood sugar, especially if you add MCT oil or butter.

Research has shown that coffee may even help decrease your risk of dementia! Here are some of the other potential health benefits of coffee:

• Decreases symptoms related to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's

• Decreases risk of gallstones

• Increases the production and flow of bile

• Prevents kidney stones

• Has anti-cancer properties

• Has anti-inflammatory properties

• Has hepatoprotective properties

• Contains polyphenols to feed your microbiome

• Can help improve postural hypotension

• Improves exercise performance

• Increases cardiac output

• Delays muscle soreness

• Decreases symptoms experienced at high altitudes

• Increases mitochondrial biogenesis

• Increases stomach acid

Transcript

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0:00.0	So today I'm going to talk about some of the other benefits of coffee that go beyond just waking up in the morning.
0:05.5	In other words, I'm going to give you some really important reasons to drink coffee.
0:09.5	That being said, I'm not recommending coffee if it gives you anxiety it increases your heart rate and if it prevents you from sleeping and I'm not recommending large amounts of coffee just one cup a day I am the human guinea pig for drinking way too much coffee in college.
0:23.2	I drank pots of coffee and it really burned out my adrenals because too much coffee
0:29.9	can increase cortisol and adrenaline.
0:33.0	So why am I recommending coffee in the first place?
0:37.1	Well, there's some different chemicals
0:39.3	in the coffee itself, as well as this one chemical called caffeine and the benefits of
0:46.0	coffee come from both caffeine and these other chemicals and just so you know
0:51.0	caffeine is a phytochemical, okay, it comes from plants.
0:55.5	It's actually an insecticide and it's in 30 plants.
0:59.5	But the question is, how can an insecticide be good for us?
1:03.0	Well, sometimes a little poison or a little stress can actually create benefits in our body.
1:08.0	So what is coffee?
1:09.0	Really, it's just a fermented coffee bean.
1:12.0	That means that they're interacting with a
1:13.3	microbe to enhance something about that food. I want to talk about these other
1:17.6	benefits other than the one that most people know. Caffeine inhibits a certain compound called
1:25.4	the denosine that keeps us awake. It normally helps us go to sleep it makes us tired.
1:30.3	Well by inhibiting that chemical, caffeine will wake you up.
1:34.0	But let's get into some of the other things that coffee can do for you.
1:37.0	It can give you mental acuity.
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