Coffee Can Reduce Impact Of Liver Diseases, University Researchers Find

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no wonder I'm still alive...

 

 

Good news coffee lovers, you can have a second cup … for your health.

 

Drinking two or more cups of a coffee a day can ward off liver diseases, according to researchers at Monash University in Australia.

 

Two cups a day have been found to reduce the damage caused by hepatitis C by up to 13 per cent.

 

You can now drink up knowing a couple of cups of coffee a day is good for you, says Dr Alex Hodge on 3AW Breakfast.

 

Four cups have been found to reduce the signs of fatty liver disease – the most common liver disease affecting about 40 per cent of Australians – by as much as 24 per cent.

 

The study of 1100 liver disease patients at the Monash Health Clinic showed that even when other risk factors such as weight, alcohol consumption and smoking were taken into account, coffee was able to reduce the impact of their conditions.

 

Dr Alex Hodge, a liver disease specialist at Monash Health, revealed the findings of the study this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases in San Francisco.

 

"Certainly moderate amounts of coffee, depending on the liver disease you're looking at, seem to be associated with less liver damage and probably less liver fat, as well," he told Fairfax radio station 3AW.

 

Six million Australians are, or have been, affected by some form of liver disease, of which the three most common forms are fatty liver disease, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

 

"The most striking results were found in patients with hepatitis C," Hodge said of his study.

 

"Two or more cups of coffee led to an improvement in their liver disease."

 

Interestingly, Hodge's study did not find the same results when he analysed liver patients' consumption of tea.

 

The research adds to the growing body of evidence of the health benefits of coffee.

 

However, it remains unclear exactly how coffee helps.

 

"Caffeine certainly has some effect, but there are over 1000 other different substances and there's probably a number of other things that contribute, so it's probably not just one thing," Hodge said.

 

Past research has suggested coffee's health benefits came from caffeine and one other element, but that, he said, did not totally discount the benefits of decaffeinated coffee.

 

"Decaffeinated coffee certainly has some effect, but certainly not to the degree that caffeinated coffee would have," he said.

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so how long before the next study comes out about how coffee harms us? seems these kind of studies are "oscillating "