| People sometimes wonder if I’m serious when I say that I plan to live to at least 180… |
| But it’s studies like this one that demonstrate you really can hack the human lifespan with changes as simple as the number of cups of coffee you drink each day. |
| The Study |
| A huge multi-year European study just out this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine (1) found that the 25% of people who drank the most coffee per day experienced “significantly lower all-cause mortality.”
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| Yes, you read that right – a measurably lower risk of death just from drinking more coffee – including a lower rate of death from digestive disease in both men and women. |
| And women who consumed the most coffee died less from circulatory and cerebrovascular diseases, too. |
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| The Takeaway |
| I’m not expecting coffee to get me anywhere near 180 all by itself… |
| After all, it’s impossible to run a long enough study to prove a serious impact on longevity anyway – this one was on the long side at around 16 years. |
| However, these results add even more weight to the already overwhelming evidence that at the very least, coffee isn’t bad for you like some detractors would have you believe (claims that coffee is “acidifying” or stunts your growth have been long since debunked)... |
| And even though it’s impossible to account for every single possibility in an “observational” study like this… more and more research suggests it’s probably extremely good for you as well. |
| Most likely due to the high concentrations of polyphenol antioxidants that help your mitochondria (and by extension, your entire body and brain) run better, and longer. |
| The Truth About Caffeinated Coffee vs. Decaf... |
| Of course, there are also reasons to limit your daily intake of caffeine – the reason I’ve typically stuck to just two cups worth of caffeinated coffee per day. |
| That’s why based on studies like this one (and many others I reviewed during the research for my latest book, Head Strong), I decided to add another 3 cups of decaf coffee to get even more of the polyphenol benefit without getting over-caffeinated. |
| In fact, there’s no reason you can’t get much of the performance (and longevity) boost from coffee even if you only drink decaf – as long as you’re brewing top-quality beans. |
| (Most decaf coffee on the market comes from inferior ‘robusta’ beans, and tends to be even more highly contaminated with mold toxins – partly because caffeine naturally helps protect the coffee bean against fungus. That’s why we make Bulletproof decaf from the same lab-tested arabica beans as the high-test stuff, using an upgraded Swiss Water decaffeination process). |
| How To Get The Most Benefit... |
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1. Start out in the morning with up to two cups worth of quality caffeinated coffee (otherwise just start with decaf if you avoid caffeine)... |
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2. Then (optional), for even more of the benefits of coffee without the usual downsides of too much caffeine, add up to 3 more cups of high-grade decaf (either plain, espresso, or mixed into Bulletproof Coffee) in the afternoon. |
| Of course, coffee quality matters, too – consuming all the polyphenols in coffee along with a dose of kryptonite like Ochratoxin A won’t make you feel amazing, and it’s not likely to lower your net mortality risk very much, either… |
| That’s why I developed the proprietary Bulletproof Process to guarantee a supply of lab-tested clean coffee beans I could rely on to deliver all the true benefits of coffee that make you strong... without the typical performance-wrecking toxins that can make you weak. |
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Stay Bulletproof,
Dave Asprey |
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P.S. Remember – coffee delivers the same performance boost hot or cold. If you’re looking for a way to beat the heat and still get the same benefits from clean, lab-tested Bulletproof beans this summer, make sure to try Bulletproof Iced Coffee or Cold Brew. |
| (1) Coffee Drinking and Mortality in 10 European Countries: A Multinational Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med. 2017. DOI: 10.7326/M16-2945 |
