If you look at the relationship between drinking coffee and the health benefits, they are non-negotiably, astronomically impressive. Drinking coffee seems to be a very good thing. Now again, it's dose dependent. Once you get past about four cups of coffee, then it goes in the opposite direction. It's not a good thing. And if you look at that list, and it is quite a list of health benefits and disease de-risking that drinking coffee provides, and you compare that to all of the health benefits that sleep provides, it's a remarkable overlap. So people were saying to me, how do you square that circle? Because that doesn't make any sense. Well, if you look at the data, the reason that drinking coffee is so beneficial is because the coffee bean itself contains a whopping dose of antioxidants. And because in the Western world we're so deficient in our dietary intake of antioxidants, this one thing, the coffee bean, has been asked to carry the herculean weight of all of our antioxidant needs. And therefore that's why drinking coffee has such a health predictive signal in the literature. Case in point, if you look at decaffeinated coffee, has almost the same health benefits. So it's not the caffeine, it's the antioxidants in the coffee bean itself. So again, with all of these things, with alcohol and caffeine, I am just a scientist. I have no right to tell anyone how to live their life. And I don't want to be the healthiest person in the graveyard either. Life is to be lived. For goodness sake, live a little bit. - Matthew Walker
Dali wrote a book about farts ))
Beautiful one
So did Montaigne... self-expression in a jar or a Substack.. oh, never mind.
If you look at the relationship between drinking coffee and the health benefits, they are non-negotiably, astronomically impressive. Drinking coffee seems to be a very good thing. Now again, it's dose dependent. Once you get past about four cups of coffee, then it goes in the opposite direction. It's not a good thing. And if you look at that list, and it is quite a list of health benefits and disease de-risking that drinking coffee provides, and you compare that to all of the health benefits that sleep provides, it's a remarkable overlap. So people were saying to me, how do you square that circle? Because that doesn't make any sense. Well, if you look at the data, the reason that drinking coffee is so beneficial is because the coffee bean itself contains a whopping dose of antioxidants. And because in the Western world we're so deficient in our dietary intake of antioxidants, this one thing, the coffee bean, has been asked to carry the herculean weight of all of our antioxidant needs. And therefore that's why drinking coffee has such a health predictive signal in the literature. Case in point, if you look at decaffeinated coffee, has almost the same health benefits. So it's not the caffeine, it's the antioxidants in the coffee bean itself. So again, with all of these things, with alcohol and caffeine, I am just a scientist. I have no right to tell anyone how to live their life. And I don't want to be the healthiest person in the graveyard either. Life is to be lived. For goodness sake, live a little bit. - Matthew Walker
I’ve had the longest love affair of my life with my magnificent coffee cup.
Likewise. I have a poem about coffee in my drafts right now...