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This is especially interesting, since coffee is moderately protective for Parkinson's. Does that mean the coffee may be working at the gut level rather than it
by trendia 10y ago
This is especially interesting, since coffee is moderately protective for Parkinson's.
Does that mean the coffee may be working at the gut level rather than its caffeine working in the brain? On second thought, coffee definitely works on the gut in normal people, if you know what I mean.
- spangry 10y agoInteresting. Might the effect be due to coffee's acidity? When you drink coffee, the environment in your stomach becomes more acidic, which would (just speculating) make it more effective at destroying/metabolising any mal-folded amino-acid metabolites/proteins (i.e. prions, scary stuff). Pharmacokinetics does not seem to be particularly well understood currently, but we do seem to be finding it's much more important than we thought. That, and whatever you call the 'study of metabolism' (metabolomics?)...
- PascLeRasc 10y agoI remember reading that study too but I think coffee was only shown to be significantly protective for 8-10+ cups/day.
- r00fus 10y agoWondering if decaf would be as useful as caffeinated for this purpose?