The health benefits of coffee are countless. Scientists have analyzed them in as many ways as there are parts of the human anatomy. Three cups daily to lend a hand heal left knee cartilage. Four cups for your snail. You name it. But what is the actual impact? What is this all leading to? It turns out that’s almost two extra years of life. A recent meta-study has found that regular coffee consumption is associated with a 1.8-year enhance in life expectancy, and good years at that.
As reported Newsweekthe study is the work of scientists from the Portuguese Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC), recently published in the journal . To do this, scientists analyzed more than 50 studies on the health effects of coffee, including people from Europe, North America and Asia.
They found that, based on the studies they examined, regular coffee consumption was associated with an additional 1.8 years of life. They also note that “maximum benefit is provided by 3 cups per day,” with the effects beginning to wane with more or less regular cups.
And these are not the end of life years either. As we delve deeper into the effects of coffee on… The seven pillars of aging— epigenetics, inflammation, macromolecular damage, metabolism, proteostasis, stem cell regeneration, and stress — a meta-study found that coffee consumption is beneficial and has a “consistent association between coffee consumption and longer life, as well as healthier aging.”
Taking into account the average life expectancy of Americans in 2024, 1.8 additional years increases overall life expectancy by 2.27%, which is a significant number. Especially for doing something you were planning on doing anyway (and probably still would if it pushed your total number of years in this mortal coil in a different direction). Pretty good. Pretty pretty good.
