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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck physical therapist.
- Together we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet. - In our, oh,
in our opinion, of course, Bob.
- All right, coffee drinkers out there.
What does coffee do to the heart, brain, and body?
We're gonna go over the latest research.
Wow. You actually have some in there.
Is that right? - Oh yeah.
Bob, I like to keep my coffee hot.
- [Crew Member] You should drink that one.
- Yeah, I will drink it all right.
- He's gonna drink it, yeah.
Okay. So I did a lot of research on this, Brad.
And there's been a lot of research on this,
a ton of research on this.
So I went to PubMed, that's usually the site I like to do,
It's a government research- - Sure.
- Website. And there was, I mean,
there was a lot of studies just from 2018 on this.
- So these are recent.
- Yeah. These are recent.
And I'm gonna just give you a summary
of what a lot of 'em said first to the actual benefits.
And then there's some that are more on the,
you know, questionable.
Does it help? Does it not help?
Some of 'em kinda went back and forth.
- Right.
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- Yeah. (both laughing)
All right, so let's first talk about what studies
all seem to agree on first.
And in fact I didn't see any that went
the other way on this.
Benefits, and there's a lot of 'em.
First, decreased incidents of type 2 diabetes.
- That's encouraging.
- Yeah, that is encouraging.
Decreased liver disease and cancer,
decreased liver cancer in people that drank coffee.
I'm not gonna go into the amounts
'cause they vary for each study.
It generally protected against gallstones.
Number four, decreased risk of endometrial cancer.
So a lot of cancers thrown in there.
Increased cognitive function.
- I could use that, Bob. - Yeah we both could use that,
hey, hey, here let's
drink to that. - There you go.
Another cup of coffee for that one.
- Decreased Alzheimer's, which,
we're probably heading that way.
- Yeah, that's another benefit.
- All right, number seven.
Decreased incidents of Parkinson's disease.
So the benefits keep racking up, don't they, Brad?
- Right. Yeah, so far you can't go wrong.
- Decreased depression, decreased ovarian cancer,
and decreased incidents of stroke.
So lots and lots of benefits.
- Right. I'm glad you did this one, Bob,
'cause I typically have not drank any coffee,
and I'm 55, until the last year.
So I'm thinking, you know, maybe-
- Is this a good time to start?
But yeah, apparently it is.
The studies that were a little more questionable,
'cause I actually saw some that said
it was good for heart disease,
and some that said it was bad.
- Right.
- But I'm gonna go over just a couple of the studies here,
Brad, maybe talk about five of 'em.
The first one was 2018,
and this was saying, if you have very high consumption,
let's say you drink more than six cups a day,
that there was an increased risk of aortic valve stenosis.
It's kind of a heart heart issue.
- Right, yep. That aortic valve is starting
to get problems passing the blood through it.
- So another one with, basically, have to do with the heart.
If you drank one to two cups a day, there was no risk.
But on the second one,
if you drank three or four cups or more,
you had increased risk of a heart attack.
- Okay.
- So again, I would take this with a grain of salt
because I saw some that went the other way on those too.
- Right, right.
- Another one from 2018.
If you drank more than three cups a day
it actually said it decreased your risk
of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries.
- Sure.
- So here's one that went the other way.
It said it was actually-
- They're going back- - Good for the heart.
- And forth, Bob,
I think it depends on who paid for the study,
I don't know. - Maybe it does,
or maybe, there are individuals,
'cause we're gonna get to this numbers, number five,
it said if you had a high consumption
of unfiltered coffee
that they saw increased cholesterol,
increased heart disease in these people,
but these were people with a common gene mutation.
So kind of getting weird into that.
This mutation, it's slow to break down caffeine,
so it doesn't, you know?
- Yeah, so that's pretty specific.
- Yeah. It's pretty specific. - Individual.
- Right.
And the last one I mentioned is,
and this one I saw in more than one study,
so if you do have high blood pressure,
you may wanna avoid more than five cups of coffee a day.
- Wow. Five cups- - That's a lot.
- That's getting pretty serious in my book.
- So if you have cardiovascular disease,
if I were in that boat,
I think I would probably still drink coffee, but less.
I'd probably maybe drink the two cups a day
and you're gonna be pretty safe then I think.
- Now the question I have, Bob,
is where I go get mine is at a convenience store,
the local QuikTrip, and I never know what one cup is,
'cause they got from 12 ounces to 24 ounce
big things you can fill up,
they got those 20 different flavors of coffee.
- I think a cup is just six ounces, isn't it?
- Six? - I think so.
- Well, so that means you could get up
to a few cups in one of those big cups.
- If you did like a thermos,
you'd probably be knocking off,
you're probably in that six plus level there.
- So be careful on the size so you relate it properly.
- So summarize again, lots and lots of benefits,
some questionable whether or not
it's good for heart disease.
But basically, you coffee drinkers out there,
you're pretty safe I would say.
- Yeah, one thing's for sure,
that caffeine kinda keeps me awake on the road.
That was the biggest reason,
'cause Pepsi was doing it before.
- Yeah. And if you die on the road,
it's not gonna help that you survived everything else.
- If I'm gonna drink something
to keep me awake when I get in that sleepy period.
- All right. And don't be looking
at your phone either on the road.
- Right. Precisely. - So we keep everybody safe,
don't we?
All right, thanks for watching.