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New studies continue to show that coffee promotes our health.
A new study shows that a substance from the coffee bean has an effect on Alzheimer's disease.
Are you a coffee drinker?
Then you will benefit from some health-giving effects, as researchers worldwide have proven in studies.
Scientists around Dr.
Judit Simon from the Heart and Vascular Center at Semmelweis University in Budapest found that up to three cups of coffee per day is associated with a lower risk of stroke and fatal heart disease.
Moderate coffee consumption is also said to have a positive effect on mental health - and even protect against depression.
It is also known that regular coffee consumption has a positive effect on the risk of dementia.
“We found that coffee and tea consumption, individually or in combination, are associated with a lower risk of stroke and dementia,” said a team of researchers led by Yuan Zhang from the School of Public Health at Tianjin Medical University in China.
Product made from coffee grounds reduces the negative effects of environmental toxins
A current analysis by Indian-American researchers also comes to the conclusion that a substance in coffee has an Alzheimer's preventive effect.
This is a caffeic acid-based substance with the abbreviation CACQD, which can be obtained from coffee grounds.
Coffee has some positive health effects.
Even substances contained in coffee grounds are said to promote our health, as scientists have discovered.
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“Our results suggest that CACQDs derived from caffeic acid, which potentially penetrate the blood-brain barrier, are promising for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders (
Editor's note
: These are pathological changes that promote the decline of the nervous system). with environmental pesticides and xenobiotic neurotoxicicides,” write the study authors led by Jyotish Kumar from the University of Texas in El Paso (USA) in the journal
Environmental Research
.
Xenobiotic neurotoxicity refers to chemical substances of non-natural origin that have a damaging effect on nerve tissue.
Many environmental toxins such as pesticides and weed killers fall into this category.
They are associated with the development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
CACQD from coffee grounds protects cells from free radicals
The researchers obtained CACQD from used coffee grounds using an environmentally friendly process.
To do this, it was “cooked” for four hours at 200 degrees, as the official health portal of German pharmacists
aponet.de
informs.
In experiments in test tubes and with cell cultures, the scientists were able to demonstrate that CACQD prevented cell damage caused by the pesticide paraquat by removing aggressive free radicals from the cells.
In addition, CACQD was able to inhibit specific protein deposits typical of Alzheimer's in the experiment, as
aponet
reports.
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The laboratory experiment still has to be tested in clinical trials on humans.
But the research team assumes that CACQD treatment could be useful in people when Alzheimer's is in its early stages.
In this case, CACQD could prevent the disease from progressing, according to the researchers.
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