Caffeine Prevents Brain Cancer
Yet another benefit of caffeine has potentially been discovered by researchers in the UK.
It seems that people who consume Caffeinated beverages have a 40% less risk of getting Glioma which is a type of brain cancer.
In the study published in the journal; Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, the caffeine consumption habits of 300 brain cancer patients were compared with those who were cancer free. Those that had at least five cups of coffee a day showed to have less risk of developing Glioma. That’s over 500mg of caffeine a day!
The men in the study showed more favorable results than that of the women, but it still suggests that caffeine is responsible as decaffeinated beverages made no difference in cancer rates.
In the past a lot of studies concluded that the antioxidents in coffee and tea were the health promoting factors, however, the researchers theorize that in this case the caffeine restricts blood flow to the brain, which prevents cancer cells from getting the high oxygen and nutrient levels they need in order to flourish.
What’s even better is that this study didn’t exclude other caffeinated beverages such as tea and soda so the results took the consumption of these beverages into account as well.
Now when you are hassled about your energy drink addiction, you can tell the haters that you are preventing brain cancer!
Yeah, there’s a study saying that roughly the same amount of coffee a day that this one is talking about will also Reduce risks of senile dementia. i think up to 40% reduced actually.
It is a great discovery.Thanks for your site.
A simple google search will find you a lot of articles on caffeine’s effect on cognitive abilities, all of them saying caffeine improves it. I’m not sure if that would change the more you take and if it did I’m sure at least one study would have found out by now.
This may not be a good thing. So this works because the caffeine restricts blood flow to the brain, thus essentially starving glioma cells of nutrients? If it’s starving out the glioma cells, it must also be starving out the normal brain cells. Next step should probably be to see if there is cognitive decline among heavy caffeine users.