Q&A 412: Is Cholesterol In Coffee Bad (& How To Make Your Coffee As Healthy As Possible), What To Do About Low Progesterone, Carbs Impact On Your Immune System & Much More!

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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The whole problem with this “coffee could be bad for you depending on how you brew it” article is that it assumes the cholesterols in coffee are problematic, which they are not, and are in fact one of the reasons coffee is good for your brain and Coffee consumption and mortality from cardiovascular diseases and total mortality: Does the brewing method matter?
Lipid levels are paramount to performance. In a study of over 100 lipid profiles of elite athletes in Olympic sports, VO2 max was positively correlated to HDL and Total Cholesterol/HDL ratio.
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0:00.0	In this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, is cholesterol in coffee bad and how
0:09.1	to make your coffee as healthy as possible.
0:11.9	What to do about low progesterone, the effect of carbs on your immune system, and much more.
0:18.0	Health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more.
0:29.2	My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show.
0:38.1	Alright Jay, turns out that there have been some studies coming out about coffee that we're
0:43.8	getting into on today's news flashes. So that begs the question, what did you have to
0:49.8	drink this morning?
0:51.8	I thought you might follow up with that. I hadn't seen those articles until you showed
0:56.2	me them and I'm excited to talk about them. But this morning I did indeed, I had two cups
1:00.8	of coffee, which is probably about average for me. And when I say two cups, I'm not talking
1:04.6	about the traditional A-downs. I'm about more like a 10 ounce guy.
1:07.5	10 ounce by the way, that's a thimble dude. That is a thimble. So I find amazing quotes.
1:14.5	And then I go to this website called Zazzle. And they sell, I want to say they're coming
1:20.4	up on about 24 to 28 ounces or so. These giant ass mugs. And I am emblazing a quote on
1:28.9	the mug. And my wife gets annoyed because I just constantly have this stream of mugs coming
1:32.9	in the kitchen from Zazzle with my favorite one being the Theodore Roosevelt, man in the
1:37.6	arena mug. And they're very large. They're very large. But they allow me to as I'm drinking
1:42.0	my coffee ferment in the wisdom of something I've read or something that inspires me.
1:47.3	But when you say 10 ounces, what do you say 10 ounces? Yeah, well, I do two 10 ounces.
1:51.9	So 20 total, but each cup or thimble is 10 ounces. Okay. All right. Keep going and describe
1:58.8	more while I see if I can figure out how many ounces these mugs are that I can see.
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