The Danger in the Caffeine High: Coffee’s Good Versus Bad Effects

“He was addicted to caffeine. He’d have anywhere from six to 12 cups a day,” says Dr. Daniel Amen, describing an Air Force pilot he once treated.

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The veteran psychiatrist and social media influencer used specialized imaging to indicate to the pilot the health and function of his brain.

“His brain looked way older than he did,” says Dr. Amen. Within a month of cutting back on caffeine, the pilot “was stunned with the amount of energy he had and with how much better his sleep was,” he adds.

Of course, this highlights just one side of the risks versus benefits of coffee drinking; and on the flip side, there’s no shortage of evidence to support the benefits.

What did the 2022 study of more than 170,000 people over seven years reveal about the relationship between coffee drinking and length of life?

How many cups of coffee per day was linked to the longest lifespan? And how did the use of sugar and artificial sweetener factor in?

Coffee drinking is linked to a lower risk of depression, suicide, and even Alzheimer’s disease.

What might be happening biochemically to trigger not just these, but also caffeine’s addictive effects?

We lay out the scientifically-backed pros and cons of drinking coffee on Vital Signs with Brendon Fallon.

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Referenced studies:

Adenosine and sleep
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12531135/

Midlife coffee and tea drinking and the risk of late-life dementia: a population-based CAIDE study
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19158424/

Caffeine and coffee as therapeutics against Alzheimer’s disease
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20182037/

Coffee, caffeine, and risk of depression among women
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21949167/

Cocaine increases dopamine release by mobilization of a synapsin-dependent reserve pool
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16554471/

Association of Sugar-Sweetened, Artificially Sweetened, and Unsweetened Coffee Consumption With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Large Prospective Cohort Study
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-2977

Habitual coffee consumption inversely associated with metabolic syndrome-related biomarkers involving adiponectin
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23602227/

Comparison of Changes in Energy Expenditure and Body Temperatures after Caffeine Consumption
https://doi.org/10.1159/000177854

Caffeine promotes autophagy in skeletal muscle cells by increasing the calcium-dependent activation of AMP-activated protein kinase
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.09.094

Metabolic effects of caffeine in humans: lipid oxidation or futile cycling?
https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/79.1.40

Coffee, caffeine, and risk of type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study in younger and middle-aged U.S. women
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16443894/

Caffeine intake and cognitive functions in children
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32601990/

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