Drinking Coffee Prevents Aging

Coffee is bad for you, coffee is good for you. The internet is full of specialists and studies demonstrating both possibilities, but is it really that simple? Of course, there are people who react badly to coffee, and there's coffee that is anything but coffee – it's more like an ultra-processed beverage with coffee flavour.

A long epidemiological study, published in 2022 in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, sheds some light on this topic. This study was conducted in the United Kingdom between 2006 and 2010 with half a million people aged between 40 and 69.

According to this study, coffee drinkers are biologically younger than non-drinkers. However, this does not mean that the more coffee, the better, because the study found that there is an optimal amount. Drinking 2 to 3 cups a day is associated with a 27% lower risk of dying from any cause. On average, each daily cup corresponds to a reduction of 0.12 years in epigenetic age.

Source: The impact of coffee subtypes on incident cardiovascular disease, arrhythmias, and mortality: long-term outcomes from the UK Biobank