Good News for Coffee Drinkers

Drinkers of coffee and tea, you have good news: You can be spared of the burden of multi-drug resistant bacteria, that have emerged from widespread use of anti-biotics. These bacteria are usually found in biofilm, the slime, which as a barrier makes treatment even more difficult. These bacteria are resistant to almost all anti-biotics in current use.

Biofilms are formed when these resistant bacteria multiply and attain a large population in their colony. This growth is promoted by inadequate nutrition, which suppresses the immune system or a diet high in sugar and in micronutrients that favor bacteria growth. Coffee both regulates body sugar and boosts the immune system, thus permitting the body to both limit the growth of recalcitrant infections and to get rid of them.

Coffee and tea contain lignans and phytoestrogens, anti-oxidants which counteract pain, in one way, by their ability to scavenge highly reactive oxygen species, generated from metabolic challenges, tissue damage, and which further damage the tissue. By scavenging reactive oxygen species, these anti-oxidants also protect immune cells from being damaged by these free radicals and so boost the efficiency of the defense cells to protect the body.

The resulting competent immune cells are then able to eliminate multi-drug resistant bacteria.They do so with so much efficiency that the normal body tissue is spared of mistaken 'friendly fire' and by preventing collateral damage to our tissue, this is another way anti-oxidants suppress pain.

Coffee also contains chlorogenic acids, which prevent the absorption of glucose and alter gut hormone levels that regulate insulin secretion. Availability of glucose assists cancer and bacteria to grow. So by regulating sugar, coffee takes care of infections and cancer.

Coffee increases sex hormone binding lobulin and increases testosterone secretion. Raised testosterone levels, which though initially may increase growth hormone and initiate prostate cancer, helps prevent cancer progression. This explains why prostate cancer occurs later in life when testosterone levels are low.

Caffeinated and non-caffeinated coffees are equally effective since it is not caffeine that is responsible for these health benefits.

Dr Oliver Verbe Birnso, MD

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