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Hi, and welcome to Your Health Quickly, a scientific American podcast series.

On this show, we highlight the latest vital health news, discoveries that affect your body and your mind.

Every episode, we dive into one topic. We discuss diseases, treatments, and some controversies.

And we demystify the medical research in ways you can use to stay healthy.

I'm Tanya Lewis.

I'm Josh Fishman.

We're Scientific American Senior Health Editors.

Today we're talking about coffee.

We hear a lot of conflicting findings about whether our favorite beverage is good or bad for our health.

But recently, an especially rigorous study came out that may finally answer some of our percolating questions.

There's a good chance that right now you're sipping the very thing we're talking about,

coffee.

It is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the entire world.

It's true.

Here in the U.S., the average person drank almost 89 gallons of coffee in 2016, more than soda, tea, and juice combined.

That's a lot of Java, or Joe, brew, or jitter juice, whatever you like to call it.

Indeed. Do you drink coffee, Josh?

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