Basically, the researchers looked at a massive (n=500,000) sample of people and compared their health on a variety of measures with their consumption of caffeine
This almost certainly means that, if you were to include more factors, you'd see the results trend to no statistical significance
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Which brings us neatly to the point of the study It wasn't to prove that coffee was GOOD for you It was to show that people with genetic variants that make caffeine metabolism problematic can drink coffee safely
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All they wanted to show was that coffee is probably not too bad for you, and that most people can drink it fine Which they did ANYTHING MORE IS TOTAL NONSENSE
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Coffee is a fucking brilliant invention. But drinking it to make yourself healthier or to "Save your life" is bullshit that you should be wary of
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If you enjoyed this thread, it is now expanded on in blog form here:https://medium.com/@gidmk/6-coffees-a-day-wont-save-your-life-9c81ba56d1e5 …
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