Scientists discover how coffee is too much coffee

Too much coffee could precede the same line of typing as wine leftovers: who has ever heard of such a thing? But even as a person who needs it chemically, I admit that there is a line. Cross it and you will feel the headache, the stingy brain and the acute stomach, which will only subside over time and a lot of water. And excessive coffee consumption over a period of time may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, according to new research published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition find. In this study, scientists determined the precise level at which caffeine becomes harmful instead of being beneficial to health: six cups a day.

Compared to non-coffee drinkers and those who drink decaffeinated tea, moderate-amount coffee drinkers have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. But once coffee consumption has reached six cups a day, the risk of cardiovascular disease has increased by 22%. The researchers drew on a database of 347,077 people in the UK. Biobank, an open access database containing genetic, physical and health data of hundreds of thousands of people between 2006 and 2010. cups is a bit; most people do not realize that their 16-ounce cups are more than a cup of coffee. A recent German study has set the ideal level of coffee consumption at four cups a day.

As a person who faced this threshold of six cups, I made a conscious effort to reduce my consumption in recent years. Most of the time, I found that if I prepared a better coffee and savored it a bit more in the morning, I did not have to drink the equivalent of two Big Gulps. The first cup wakes me up, the second allows me to cross the morning race and, some days, I can even give up the third. That means I'm going to live forever, right?