Caffeinated coffee and tea could help protect you against dementia. Even a few daily cups.
Caffeinated coffee and teas may not be so bad for healthy aging, study says.
You don’t have to cut the morning caffeine drip to protect your brain against dementia in the future.
New research shows that daily coffee or tea –– and yes, the caffeinated kind –– is associated with better cognitive health in the long term.
Those who enjoyed two to three cups of coffee or one to two cups of tea a day saw the biggest impact, according to recent study published in JAMA.
Coffee drinkers in midlife had about an 18% lower chance of developing dementia later on, while tea drinkers had a 14% lower risk, said senior author of the study Dr. Daniel Wang, assistant professor in the department of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
Wang and the team did not observe the same benefit in decaffeinated options amid the data of the more than 130,000 people enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study.
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