339: Is Caffeine Safe: Risks vs. Benefits (TWT)

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Dr. Stephen Cabral

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🗓️ 10 January 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The #1 drug in the world is caffeine. It's consumed by over a billion people and a recent study by New Scientist magazine states that 90% of all US adults use some form of caffeine on a daily basis...

Those are some incredible statistics, but is all of this caffeine consumption good for us? Is it possible coffee and other stimulants can shorten lifespan and cause mood and insomnia issues? Are there benefits to consuming caffeine for brain health or diabetes?

Tune into today's #CabralConcept 339 for the answer on whether or not caffeine is safe, as well as a useful risks vs. benefits comparison for whom caffeine may help for and whom it may harm - Enjoy the show!

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0:00.0	The Hi everyone and welcome back to the Cabral concept I'm Stephen Cabral
0:21.2	Bould-certified naturotic, and I'm looking forward today to sharing with you all of the risks and benefits of drinking caffeine.
0:29.0	So I'm someone who likes to share with you both sides of the equation.
0:33.2	I believe I just got this either on our Facebook group or maybe it was on on
0:37.4	Instagram.
0:38.4	And I was basically just saying I was answering the question about bone broth and
0:42.3	collagen and I said it's not really my
0:45.4	job to tell you necessarily what to do it's my job to provide you with the
0:49.6	information and then once you have that information from an unbiased source, you can say, okay, this seems to make sense for me.
0:57.0	This seems to be the right fit in my life right now, and then you can decide what's best for you.
1:01.0	So if you're a big coffee drink or big tea drinker or
1:03.2	you eat a lot of chocolate or whatever it might be, I'm going to share with you right
1:06.5	now all the different benefits and the potential risks to actually consuming that
1:10.9	caffeine and you might want to think about
1:13.0	cutting back okay so let's talk about it right now when we consume green tea or
1:18.6	black tea so green tea has about 35 to 70 milligrams of caffeine per cup. To put this in perspective, the
1:25.8	upper limit that most people should stay with is 300 milligrams or below. Now
1:30.9	that's just from a healthy human who doesn't have any real health risks because
1:34.9	I'm going to go into those in a moment. But for a lot of people that's way too much caffeine.
1:39.1	Even just one cup or even some dark chocolate is too much caffeine for some people.
1:42.9	But again, we'll get into that in a moment.
1:44.7	So green tea, about 35 to 70 milligrams of caffeine.
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