Whether you adore specialty coffee or a regular cup of joe, you are doing your body a favor. While too much coffee can increase anxiety levels among other complications, moderate amounts protect you against disease and provide other health benefits. If you are unsure how much coffee per day benefits you, talk to your doctor.

Top Health Benefits of Coffee

1. Protects Against Type 2 Diabetes

Studies indicate specialty coffee and all other similar brews can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. It increases plasma levels of the SHBG protein, or sex hormone-binding globulin, to regulate estrogen and testosterone. Insufficient regulation of these sex hormones increases your risk of type 2 diabetes. 

2. Helps Control Parkinson’s Disease

Tremors are the most well-known symptom of Parkinson’s disease; something coffee may be able to help with. Research suggests high coffee intake among Parkinson’s patients reduced their tremors. Other research says coffee may lower your chance of getting the disease.

3. Burns Fat

Coffee’s natural stimulant properties lend themselves to efficient fat burning among obese and normal-sized individuals alike. The beverage also increases the body’s metabolic rate by 3% to 11% to assist with calorie burning.

4. Improves Liver Health

Liver cancer risk decreases by up to 50% if you drink three cups of coffee each day. You’ll also protect yourself from liver disease due to the beverage’s ability to defend the organ against cirrhosis, particularly alcohol-induced cirrhosis.

5. May Reduce Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

Drinking coffee can decrease your risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease by as much as 65%. How drinking three cups of the beverage a day prevents or delays Alzheimer’s development is still unclear; however, it is believed to inhibit production of a protein in high amounts among dementia patients.
 

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