Two to three caffeinated cups a day may help keep the cognitive condition away.
Two to three caffeinated cups a day may help keep the cognitive condition away.
Whether you’re pouring espresso, mixing matcha or brewing a fresh pot of tea, your morning beverage might help keep your brain healthy—as long as it’s caffeinated.
In a decades-long observational study of nearly 132,000 people, individuals who drank two to three cups of coffee or one to two cups of tea each day had the lowest risk of developing dementia compared with those who didn’t consume caffeinated beverages. The findings were published February 9 in the journal JAMA.
“We are not recommending that people who don’t drink coffee start drinking,” says study co-author Yu Zhang, a population health scientist at Mass General Brigham, to NBC News’ Lindsey Leake. “We are just seeing that for people who already drink coffee, the results are really reassuring.”
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