New Study: Coffee lowers the risk of Multiple Sclerosis
We all know coffee offers some amazing benefits, including helping us to stay conscious during gruelling work days, fighting hangovers, or increasing the brain’s activity. Many of use can’t start our day without our morning café latté, so wouldn’t it be great if the indispensable beverage also helped to improve our health? Well according to a new study, the caffeine found in coffee might actually lower a person’s risk of multiple sclerosis (MS).
Researchers recently released a report which concludes that coffee can reduce or prevent damage to the nervous system (the part of the body that multiple sclerosis affects). The study was conducted on rats at universities in Finland and the US, where caffeine was seen to have an effect on a molecule termed adenosine, which is involved in sleep and producing energy. In mice injected with caffeine, the adenosine was prevented from joining to receptors on the cell surface. As a result, immune cells were prevented from entering the nervous system and the rats did not develop the rat variant of multiple sclerosis.
More testing is surely needed, especially in humans, however, if true it could provide people with even more reasons to indulge in a daily dose of coffee. This might be a good excuse to pick up a DeLonghi ICM 2 coffee machine, or even splurge a little and go for the Gaggia Classic espresso maker. Of course, the researchers do suggest limiting coffee consumption to five cups a day, in order to mitigate the risks posed by drinking excessive amounts.
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