Once again the health benefits of coffee have been mooted.
Recently there have been discussions on the positive effects of
coffee on liver disease and female memory. Now there is some early
evidence that coffee can help us avoid gout..
The bottom line is that if you drink four more cups of coffee per
day then you can reduce your [...]
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Once again the health benefits of coffee have been mooted.
Recently there have been discussions on the positive effects of
coffee on liver disease and female memory. Now there is some early
evidence that coffee can help us avoid gout..
The bottom line is that if you drink four more cups of coffee per
day then you can reduce your chances of getting gout? At least, this
is what the research tells us. This particular study was conducted in
Canada against a generally recognised background of advice to
actually avoid coffee in people particularly prone to gout.
Gout is a painful joint condition brought about by the build up in
the blood of a chemical called uric acid. The study looked at about
50,000 men who had no prior history of gout. Caffeinated coffee
appeared to be an avoiding factor but interestingly, so did the
decaffeinated variety. Drinking tea conferred no benefit whatsoever.
This is interesting work although the authors would state that
such early evidence is not conclusive. More research is needed to
determine the precise mechanisms whereby coffee interacts with the
uric acid metabolic pathway.
However, the study appeared to be no fluke. The actual level of
uric acid in the blood of these men was indeed lower. And it is the
uric acid levels themselves that makes a person more prone to gout.
There is no evidence that caffeine itself reduced uric acid levels
(hence the connection with decaffeinated coffee) but rather some
other component of the drink that affects the uric acid levels.
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