Yes, Coffee and Tea May Be Good for You

[alfreda89]

It's a big study. Times and thoughts on things change, but it looks like coffee and tea in moderation can be protective for drinkers. I also drink a couple of cups of caffeinated coffee for other health reasons, so this becomes doubly useful.

Ironically, it was tea for many years until about ten years ago. And I started drinking coffee because my system demanded it. Took years to know why.

Yes, I am slightly picky. Single source, high mountain, caffeinated. Always Central American coffees first!

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2844764

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[ladypoetess]

So, my liver is sort of chronically unhappy with me because of the polypharmacy I've been on for so many years for other issues. As I've begun to develop scarring, my GI doc told me to 1. start taking Vitamin E and 2. increase my daily caffeine/coffee intake because it is apparently helpful. So, bonus!

[alfreda89]

Yes! Exactly, but I am not a doc and don't play one on TV.

I take Vitamin E intermittently, drink an average of two cups caffeinated a day, preferably in the morning, and use EVOO, the third of the "heals liver but we don't know why" triad.

I also occasionally put 5-8 drops of Gaia milk thistle seed extract in water and drink it.

If you can head it off, awesome. But even so, my liver numbers are excellent despite illness, pollution, and living in a hot climate all those years.