Hello and welcome to Zoe Recap, where each week we find the best bits from one of our podcast episodes to help you improve your health.

Today, we're diving into coffee. Most of us are greeted by its earthy aroma every single morning.

It's hot, bitter taste signaling that the day has officially begun.

Coffee is so ingrained into our daily routine, we rarely pause to consider the effect it has

on our health.

So what is coffee?

A health-boosting elixir?

Or just another guilty pleasure?

I'm joined by Professor Tim Spector and coffee expert James Hoffman to explore one of the

world's most popular

drinks.

Well, for many years, we thought coffee was bad for us because short term, it increases

your heart rate, increases your blood pressure.

For decades, people said this is a rather dangerous thing to be having, don't do too much

of it, you're going to have an heart attack.

Then they started doing some proper studies and have shown that you actually, based on

over 25 studies, you can now see a reduction of about 25% in your risk of a heart attack

or heart disease.

So then you're saying, why would that be, something that short-term, slightly

stressing your system is actually long-term good for you?

And I think it's seeing as coffee as this whole, coffee as this fermented plant that

has microbes acting on it, has hundreds, not thousands of chemicals produced from it,

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