As one of the three major beverages in the world, coffee is now accompanied by many migrant workers.
Since this foreign thing entered China in modern times, decades of history have changed, coffee has gradually become popular, and gradually “weakened” the petty bourgeoisie label, transformed into a part-time worker Man’s “life-sustaining artifact”.
Especially when you get up in the morning or work overtime, a cup of coffee can refresh your brain, but you don’t have much time to make it now, especially those small portable packaging, which can be used at any time. Help workers “restart”.
But in addition to refreshing, coffee has recently made new discoveries.
New study confirms that drinking coffee can effectively reduce the risk of gout
According to the “Nihon Keizai Shimbun” recently reported: a joint team from Japan’s Defense Medical University and Osaka University found that drinking coffee regularly can reduce the incidence of gout.
Researchers combined data of more than 150,000 people to compare and analyze 3 values of weekly coffee drinking frequency, urea index and gout risk. According to the investigators’ daily coffee drinking habits, It is divided into 8 types.
Results data show that: Drinking coffee every day can reduce the risk of gout by about 25%.
Why does coffee reduce the risk of gout?
Coffee can increase the solubility of uric acid in urine, and the coffee polyphenols contained in it help to improve cell permeability and make the intracellular oxidation Metabolites are excreted in time, and then adjust the balance between uric acid and secretion function in the body.
Therefore, drinking coffee properly is beneficial to urine secretion and lowers the level of uric acid. Therefore, gout patients who have the habit of drinking coffee can continue to drink coffee.
However, it is not recommended to drink coffee deliberately in order to reduce the incidence of gout for patients who have no habit of drinking coffee.
For example, weight control, diet adjustment, adequate hydration, etc., the effect of coffee in reducing uric acid and preventing gout is very limited.
In addition to lowering uric acid, coffee has been found to have these benefits:
First, improve the body’s resistance and immunity
Because there are many free radicals in the human body, with the continuous increase of free radicals, it will lead to chemical reactions in the body, reducing immunity and resistance. prone to cancer.
And coffee contains chemicals that can play an antioxidant role.
Second, reducing the incidence of cardiovascular disease
While coffee consumption can increase blood pressure in the short term, tolerance develops quickly due to hemodynamic effects.
Therefore, drinking coffee for a long time will not have a significant effect on human blood pressure, and can also reduce coronary heart disease, stroke and cardiovascular disease strong> probability.
Of course, these are only found in research, the specific mechanism and clinical trials need to be further, and cannot be used as a symbol of authority.
For coffee, we need to pay attention to these two points:
1. Choose plain coffee
In order to drink coffee healthy, it is necessary to drink pure coffee, not containingA lot of sugared instant coffee has a high fat content in saccharin and cream. If you are not careful, the sugar content will exceed the standard, so drinking coffee is really threatening.
Therefore, it is better to drink plain black coffee or coffee with unsweetened milk.
2. Pay attention to the amount and time of coffee
A study of caffeine in dietary guidelines for US residents concluded that healthy people drink 3-5 cups of coffee a day as part of a healthy diet.
However, many domestic doctors recommend that it is best not to exceed 3 cups (about 200 ml/cup) per day.
American neuroscientists have calculated that the best time to drink coffee every day is 9:30-11:30 am, because caffeine interacts with an important hormone in the body, cortisol, And reach the best during this time.
Coffee doesn’t last long as a “life-sustaining artifact”
Caffeine in coffee does not really “eliminate” fatigue, but only temporarily prevents fatigue signals from being transmitted to the brain. During daily physical work, the body will metabolize “adenosine”“adenosine”< /strong>This class of neuromodulators.
Although it is bound by caffeine, adenosine does not disappear due to receptor binding, and it still needs to accumulate continuously. When the accumulated concentration exceeds caffeine, or caffeine is metabolized, the brain Still getting fatigue signals.
Therefore, for special occasions, the occasional coffee can be refreshing, but to really relieve fatigue, timely rest is king.
