Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.

This is episode 258 of the podcast. today we're going to have our main topic and focus

being related to the impact of coffee on health and we'll look at a whole host of different

areas and jump around quite a bit looking at epidemiology around certain diseases, all the way through to acute effects,

and then looking at various different mechanisms that may be impacted by different components of coffee.

And so hopefully there's something in here for everyone, and it addresses many of the typical questions that may come up about this. In addition to that, we'll, of course,

have a listener question. Again, this will be related to coffee or caffeine this week,

and we will have another admission into the Quack Asylum before leaving you with some

random recommendations for the week. So the show notes this episode

are over at sigmautrition.com slash episode 258. If you go there, you'll be able to get

links to anything relevant to today's discussion, as well as have a look around other things

related to the podcast and our other content more generally.

And of course, if you have any follow up questions or comments about this episode, you can contact either myself or Alan and we'd be happy to try and address those.

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know about it if you find it interesting. So that is it. Let's jump into this week's show.

Today's topic in focus. Today's topic in focus, we're going to talk about coffee and impacts on health. And there's a lot to get

through here. And I think this is a big topic because either it's very common to get questions

of, is coffee good for me? How much coffee should I be having? What are the health benefits of coffee?

Are there downsides, et cetera, et cetera, which will hopefully address throughout this discussion.

I think it's interesting because, I mean, it's ubiquitously consumed.

So I had a quick Google just to see what the global coffee consumption was projected to be

for the last year.

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