Welcome to the Dr. Gundry podcast, where Dr Stephen Gundry shares his groundbreaking research

from over 25 years of treating patients with diet and lifestyle changes alone.

Dr. Gundry and other wellness experts offer inspiring stories, the latest scientific

advancements, and practical tips to empower you to take control of your health and live a long

happy life. When you think of coffee, you might think of a milky, sugary, frape of some sort.

You might think l'et or cappuccino.

They're everywhere these days. If you think that's normal, sorry folks, you're

wrong. In most other areas the world, cultures actually get the benefits of coffee because they don't add anything to it, including

milk. Now there's two reasons you're actually drinking coffee. Caffeine, that's probably obvious,

and the polyphenols in coffee,

which may not be obvious.

Now, coffee, because of the caffeine and because of the polyphenols helps

uncouple your mitochondria and I've written an entire book about how

important it is for your health to uncouple your

mitochondria. Basically make your mitochondria work less hard and tell your mitochondria to divide and make more of

themselves to share the workload. That's what uncoupling does.

And caffeine and the polyphenols and coffee

are both great ways to do that.

The other recent evidence is that polyphenols are actually some of the favorite food of your gut

buddies and the more polyphenols that you add to your diet, the more diverse and happy your gut buddies become.

So polyphenols are actually a prebiotic. Now unfortunately when you add milk to your coffee

the proteins in milk bind to those polyphenols and they're unfortunately totally unavailable to feed your

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