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treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information

without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Is coffee good or bad for you?

Is coffee toxic? And this comes motivated from a conversation recently with my mother. She said,

Hey, honey, how you doing? I said, good mom. I'm going to be making

an espresso here, then start my workday. And she replied, oh, you know, I worry about you.

All that caffeine is bad for your heart. So let's unpack this question. The data are actually

pretty straightforward to answer this, but you may have heard something similar

to my mother's remark, such as this list of comments. Caffeine increases your stress hormones,

cortisol. The diputines will raise your cholesterol and your triglycerides. There's a cardiovascular

tie-in. Coffee contains acrylamide, which is classified as a carcinogen.

So is this legitimate?

Is this something that you should be aware of?

Coffee crops are sprayed with toxic pesticides.

Chlorogenic acid will increase your homocysteine, and coffee is acidic and therefore will disrupt your gut.

These are all comments and criticisms posed by healthcare experts gurus.

And if these are true, this would certainly sway me to follow my mother's advice to avoid coffee, espresso,

and caffeine. But if they're not true, then we don't want to deprive people of consuming coffee.

And what about some of what you may have heard that coffee has health benefits. So how do we

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