Drink Coffee
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Coffee drinkers rejoice! Did you know that a simple cup of coffee can improve your mood, boost your workout and even stimulate your brown fat, helping you burn calories? In this episode, Michael Mosley finds out all the benefits of our beloved bean - with research suggesting that it could help your brain and heart. What’s more, if you time it right, a simple cup of coffee could help you get more out of your workout and could even change the way you break down fat. Michael speaks to Professor James Betts at the University of Bath to find out how much coffee is the best dose, and what to bear in mind when having a cup.
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| 0:00.0 | If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them? |
| 0:06.0 | Anonymity is our most valuable gift. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Kristi Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self. |
| 0:16.0 | Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer. |
| 0:20.0 | Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B. |
| 0:24.1 | I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things. |
| 0:30.0 | Young again, with me, Kirstie Young. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | Delicious. |
| 0:42.0 | We would all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, |
| 0:47.0 | but we're bombarded with often conflicting advice. |
| 0:51.0 | So if you were going to do just one thing to improve your mental and physical |
| 0:56.0 | well-being what should it be? Maybe some beetroot to boost your work out, |
| 1:01.0 | meditation to improve your immune system. Or how about a bit of |
| 1:06.1 | dancing to big up your brain purr. I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is just one thing where each episode we'll explore |
| 1:14.8 | one thing you can start doing today to improve your health or life in ways you |
| 1:20.5 | might not expect. I'm about to do something that should increase my |
| 1:27.3 | alertness, improve my mood and even boost my morning work at. I'm about to drink a cup of freshly brewed coffee. |
| 1:37.0 | Now that smells absolutely delicious. Coffee as most people contains caffeine, which is a powerful stimulant, produced |
| 1:45.8 | by plants to help ward off insects. |
| 1:48.5 | Coffee is also rich in polyphenols, which are antioxidants that have powerful anti-inflammatory effects. |
| 1:54.0 | Surprisingly, drinking coffee not only perks it up mentally, but it's been shown to boost our |
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