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Five Coffee Companies Paid for the Study Behind the "Coffee Fixes Your Gut and Brain" Headlines
The headlines credit your morning cup with less stress, sharper memory, and a healthier gut. The study behind them was paid for by ISIC, the trade body funded by five coffee companies including illycaffè, Lavazza, and Tchibo.
Nutrition & FoodThe Coffee-and-Bones Study Behind the Scary Headline Found No Significant Coffee Effect
The tea benefit was 0.003 grams per square centimeter, a number the authors themselves called too small to matter. The scary coffee result never cleared statistical significance.
Nutrition & FoodThe Coffee-Weakens-Bones Study Never Analyzed a Single Fracture
Nearly 10,000 older women, ten years of hip scans, and the coffee alarm that made headlines came from a spline curve that never cleared statistical significance.
Nutrition & FoodThe AHA Says Coffee Is Safe to Five Cups a Day. The Energy Shot's Problem Isn't the Caffeine.
Up to 400 mg a day, roughly three to five cups of regular black coffee, is generally safe for most adults and may be linked to lower cardiovascular risk. The concentrated shot in the gym-bag can is a different animal, and the reason isn't the caffeine.
Nutrition & FoodIn the Lab, Coffee Flipped an Anti-Aging Switch. The Caffeine Barely Did.
Stephen Safe's lab reported that coffee's polyphenols, more than its caffeine, switch on a cellular stress-defense receptor. Every experiment ran in a dish, and the anti-aging headline traveled a great deal further than the data.