A couple of paragraphs to whet your appetite for more. You would get a two-fer, need to urinate more often causing you to walk more from your hospital bed to the bathroom. I don't remember any way to get extra coffee outside of meals while in the hospital, unless I had someone go downstairs to the little store on the main floor.
Will A Few Cups Of Coffee A Day Keep The Blues Away?
Following the research on the health effects of caffeine is dizzying.
Positive in some cases, negative in others – it’s hard to know whether
that morning cup of joe is a health elixir or slow-acting poison.
In the latest major study on caffeine’s effects, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found a correlation between drinking 2-4 cups of caffeinated coffee each day and lower suicide risk among adults.
The analysis showed that the risk of suicide among adults drinking 2-4 cups of coffee (the equivalent of about 400 mg of caffeine) a day was 50% less than the risk for adults who drank decaffeinated coffee or one cup or less of caffeinated coffee. Drinking more than 4 cups of coffee didn’t drop the suicide risk lower.
Having said that, the neurochemistry behind the finding makes sense. As discussed in a previous article, caffeine acts as an expert mimic of a chemical called adenosine in the brain and other parts of the body. Adenosine is a sort of checks-and-balances chemical produced by neurons as they fire throughout the day; the more adenosine is produced, the more the nervous system ratchets down activity, until we eventually fall asleep and reboot the process.
Seen this way, coffee may act as a mild antidepressant — at least to an extent. Previous research has found similar correlations reinforcing the possibility that coffee–the most frequently ingested psychoactive substance in the world–can help alleviate depression.
All of this research, however, should be taken with an enormous caveat that the findings are anything but conclusive. And given the drawbacks of cohort studies, it’s possible that the latest study results are a “mirage” that wouldn’t hold true outside of this particular correlative fishbowl.
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They put a thickener in my food for a few weeks in the hospital so if I wanted coffee, I had to eat it with a spoon. DISGUSTING.
ReplyDeleteThere is wonderful coffee ice cream but I'm sure no hospital would have that. Medical ice cream would make so much sense that it will never occur to the idiots running our stroke programs.
DeleteOMG! Medical ice cream is a GREAT idea.
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