Coffee Helps Prevent Booze-Related Liver Disease

       

          A recent study by Finnish scientists has found a link between drinking coffee and reducing your chances of developing alcohol related liver disease.  Researchers recently ran a study involving 19,000 Finnish men and women and found that those who drank both coffee and alcohol heavily had a lower risk of liver damage than those who solely drank alcohol heavily.  The study showed that as little as a cup of coffee a day could lower alcohol-caused liver disease by 20 percent, and that the protective effect of drinking coffee increased with the amount of coffee consumed.  According to a recent Harvard Medical School newsletter, coffee drinking lowers the levels of enzymes indicative of liver damage and may even protect against liver cancer and improve treatment of hepatitis C as well.  More research will need to be done, but early evidence is exciting.
          I found this article extremely interesting because I drink both coffee and alcohol (more coffee than alcohol at the moment with finals and all).  The idea that coffee could actually aid in the prevention of liver disease was amazing to me.  I will have to keep my habitual over-caffeination going in the future to produce continuous prevention of liver disease.



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