Look Young & Feel Young: Coffee Drinkers Have The Reason To Celebrate

A new study published found drinking coffee can reduce the effects of ageing. It lowers the level of inflammation in older people and drives away many major diseases.

According to Time, the author of the study David Furman, who is also a consulting associate professor at the Institute for Immunity, Transportation and Infection at Stanford University, explains that "there is no boundary for drinking coffee. In fact, the more caffeine people consumed, the more protected they are against a chronic state of inflammation."

As people gets older, inflammation throughout the body tends to rise. The study conducted by Furman and his colleagues analyzed the blood samples of 100 young people and old people. They found out that older people tends to have more activities in several inflammation-related genes than the younger ones.

Chronic disease is a long-term disease that affects mostly on aged individuals and it cannot be prevented by any vaccines or cure by medication. Ageing diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancer, heart problems, joint disorders and Alzheimer's disease are said to be inflammatory diseases from old age.

David Furman said, "Most of the diseases of ageing are not really disease of ageing, but rather disease of inflammation". The genetic involvement in inflammation affects how people acquire the disease in older age. The more active these genes were, that more likely to acquire the disease like atherosclerosis and high blood pressure.

Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant and it is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug since it is legal and unregulated and is classified by the Food and Drug Administration as generally recognized as safe. A cup of coffee contains 80-175 mg of caffeine, depending on what tape of bean seed used and how it is prepared, which is recognized to be beneficial in the study.

In an article of Foxnews Magazine, tells how caffeine works through a cellular level. Board-certified dermatologist and assistant clinical professor of dermatology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center Dr. Jessica Krant, explains the factors that involve in coffee's anti-ageing armamentarium fall into two categories which are caffeine and antioxidant.

According to Krant, "Caffeine causes dehydration, causing local fat cells to physically shrink and make cellulite appear smoother temporarily because the puffy tissue in between the tight fibrous connective tissue strands flatter, so everything looks better..."

People who drink more caffeine everyday shows extremely low levels of activity in the inflammatory gene pathway. Caffeine inhibit the circuits and turns the inflammatory pathway off.

Inflammation is an important function of the immune system to fight off infections and potentially remove toxic substances in the body. However, as a person gets older, this function is not regulated anymore. Caffeine intake will help this vital role of the immune system back to its shape.

As the study continues, David Furman and his colleagues will also soon investigate immune system and hopes to find more information to develop a variety of immune system components to tell whether the levels are normal or at higher risk in developing chronic conditions related to inflammation.