{"id":126028,"date":"2021-08-09T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/do-coffee-drinkers-live-longer"},"modified":"2021-08-09T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:22:53","slug":"do-coffee-drinkers-live-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/do-coffee-drinkers-live-longer","title":{"rendered":"Do Coffee Drinkers Live Longer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-coffee-drinkers-live-longer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caffeinated coffee might be protective to overall health, but so is decaf. For example, a 2,019 systematic review published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics aiming to \u201cinvestigate the association of caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee consumption and all-cause mortality\u201d found \u201csimilar inverse associations [between] caffeinated coffee and decaffeinated coffee [and all-cause mortality.]\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But is coffee <em>healthy? <\/em>And do coffee drinkers live longer than non-coffee drinkers?<\/p>\n<p>At the turn of the 20th century, it was considered common knowledge that coffee was unhealthy\u2014there were advertising claims that coffee drinking <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/4958713\/national-coffee-day-2017-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">caused blindness<\/a> and that \u201cyou can recover from any ordinary disease by discontinuing coffee.\u201d And while that may obviously be untrue, there are continuing fears about whether coffee is actually healthy or not. Google receives 4,400 queries a month about\u201d why coffee is bad for you\u201d (for context, \u201cwhy coffee is good for you\u201d gets only 1,300 queries a month).<\/p>\n<p>So with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevityadvice.com\/human-life-extension\/\">human life extension<\/a> in mind, I decided to dig into the research. Can coffee consumption actually help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevityadvice.com\/what-is-a-spanner\/\">spanners<\/a> extend their healthspan and lifespan? How much is the right dose? How much is too little?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caffeinated coffee might be protective to overall health, but so is decaf. For example, a 2,019 systematic review published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics aiming to \u201cinvestigate the association of caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee consumption and all-cause mortality\u201d found \u201csimilar inverse associations [between] caffeinated coffee and decaffeinated coffee [and all-cause mortality.]\u201d But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}