Study: Coffee Is Good For Your Liver

[bananas]

Source: CBS

Drinking decaffeinated and regular coffee is good for your liver, a new study finds.

Researchers said that a chemical in coffee other than caffeine may help the liver.

“Prior research found that drinking coffee may have a possible protective effect on the liver,” Dr. Qian Xiao, of the National Cancer Institute and lead researcher, said in a news release. “However, the evidence is not clear if that benefit may extend to decaffeinated coffee.”

The researchers analyzed data from about 27,800 people who were ages 20 or older. The participants had to report how much coffee they had drank over the past 24 hours. The researchers then looked at their blood samples for markers on liver health.

The findings showed that people who said they drank three or more cups of coffee a day had lower levels of alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, and gammaglutamyl transaminase. Elevated levels of these enzymes may be a sign of liver damage.

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[KamaAina]

1. Well, then, I'd better start drinking more joe

[bananas]

3. Sylvan Esso - Coffee (Official Music Video)

[Nye Bevan]

2. So drink plenty of coffee the next morning after overindulging in beer the previous night.

Hey, I already do that!

[bananas]

4. I'm drinking some kind of coffee beer right now.

Saw it in Trader Joe's and couldn't resist.
It's very good.

[kestrel91316]

8. We have a new little Scottish microbrewery and taproom nearby and I LOVE their

Jackie Tar. I call it coffee beer.

http://www.macleodale.com/

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. Wow ...

one of my remaining 3 bad habits ... is no longer a bad habit. In fact, it just might be helping out with one of my other bad habits. Now, if someone can find the bad habit that'll deal with me third bad habit ... I'll be good!

[redwitch]

6. LOL!

I was just thinking the same here!

[arikara]

40. A ray of sunshine today

We beat a bad habit without even trying!

[kestrel91316]

7. I think I read about it helping empty the gall bladder and so avoiding gallstones

and cholecystitis.

[Diclotican]

9. bananas

bananas

Problerly good for my liver - but not good for my stomage.... I prefer a cup of tea thank you

Diclotican

[bananas]

16. Coffee Habits Shaped by DNA Variations, Researchers Find

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014912183

[Diclotican]

19. bananas

bananas

I love coffee - it is one of my vices - sadly I can't drink it in large quanta - my stomage get upset - and I do not want it to be that.... It Hurts a lot... And I have had to cut back to a very small quota when I'm able to drink coffee... But then again - I can drink so much tea as I want - and I guess I drink a few liters of its every day - and it works also for my kidneys who lack some power to do their job.... My mothers was drinking a lot of coffee - and I often was asked to cock it for her - to the day I deiced to make some decent coffee - and the poor woman almost got a hearth attack - it was little to strong for her taste - and as a result I was never asked to make another pot of coffee for some reason

Diclotican

[arikara]

41. Lemons

squeezed into water or tea, good for your liver, gall bladder and your stomach.

[Diclotican]

42. arikara

arikara

Ah - thank you - I like lemon Even if it is somwhat expensive off season..

Diclotican

[Blue Owl]

10. Livers gonna live...

[BadtotheboneBob]

34. Groan!

But, a good 'groan'... That was pretty nifty, actually. I'm an honest-to-goodness old-style coffee drinking 'everyman' who learned its benefits long ago during mid-watches in the Coast Guard... no cups - mugs only... and hot!

[tjl148]

11. Beer and coffee!

OK, the way I figure it wine is good for the heart - it has alcohol so that means beer must be good for the heart. Coffee keeps the liver going. So my new diet is a 6 pack and a pot of coffee a day.

[whistler162]

12. How is it for your onions?

[Kingofalldems]

13. It'll make your liver quiver.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Excellent!

[BootinUp]

15. I'm having coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee, baked beans, coffee, coffee, and coffee.

[sarge43]

17. Well then, my liver should outlive me nt

[DeadLetterOffice]

30. Mine too. Yay coffee!

[madokie]

18. Been drinking the stuff for 50 plus years now

we make our coffee pretty weak though. I might drink a half a pot a morning in the wintertime. I used to ask my doctor how my liver was doing when we'd do blood work and he'd always say fine so the alcohol wasn't killing me I guess.

[Overseas]

20. I'm jarred by the grammar "reported how much coffee they had drank..."

But glad to hear of another study that coffee is good for our liver.

[shanti]

21. That should balance out the alcohol

heh!

[YOHABLO]

22. I just paid $3.15 for a 12oz cup of coffee at Starbucks .. that's including the shot of Espresso.

I'm sure Starbucks and their competitors love this type of information. I think it's outrageous what they charge for a cup of mediocre coffee. That's why I have them put a shot of espresso in it.

[EEO]

23. What about scotch?

[AnnieBW]

24. Great!

Now my morning coffee will counteract my evening wine!

[Helen Borg]

25. Yawn...

"coffee may have a possible protective effect on the liver"

Correlation is not causation!

[DeadLetterOffice]

31. Yes, but... can I pretend it is? Just this once? :-)

[Helen Borg]

35. OKAY, but just this time :)

[DeadLetterOffice]

36. Yay!! Thank you!

I do solemnly swear NEVER to tell my multivariate stats professor that I did any such thing.

[Art_from_Ark]

26. So who commissioned this study?

Juan Valdez?

[longship]

27. That explains the shot of bourbon in my morning coffee.

I guess this means... No worries.

Drink up, folks.

[JustAnotherGen]

28. Brandy Grampa? Is that you?

One of my great grandparents started putting a shot of schnapps in his morning coffee every day - the day after he retired.

We called him "brandy Grampa".

[longship]

29. I tell no lies.

And my mouth is shut. You will believe what you will believe...

HIC!

[4_TN_TITANS]

32. Ever been to an AA meeting?

The coffee flows like a river!

[Liberalynn]

33. I have been drinking coffee since I was five years old

so my liver must be very healthy. One morning back in the long ago I was pestering my Dad for a taste of his coffee. He used to drink it with cream and sugar. He finally relented and told me " ok but you won't like it". He was wrong. I loved it and have had it pretty much every morning since. I take mine straight though now. I love French Vanilla flavored coffee though.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

38. Same here

Started around 6-7 years old and now drink 2 32oz cups of Starbucks Italian Roast at work daily. My liver is SuperLiver!

[fizzgig]

39. a cup of milk with a bit of coffee was our sunday morning treat as kids

i've been drinking it daily since i was 14 or so.

[sakabatou]

37. *drinks coffee till I start to shake*

[MillennialDem]

43. I'm still not going to drink it