Not exact matches
«The favorable
effect of coffee on liver cancer might be mediated by
coffee's proven prevention
of diabetes, a known risk factor for the disease, or for its
beneficial effects on cirrhosis and liver enzymes.»
Chlorogenic acid in green
coffee beans is ready for direct absorption into the body, as it, as well as its metabolites are the main components responsible for the
beneficial effects of green
coffee.
Among them are
beneficial antioxidants and, according to researchers,
coffee, because
of the volume consumed, not because
of its high amount, is the primary source
of antioxidants in the American diet.3 The antioxidants may even help neutralize the harsher
effects of the caffeine that
coffee naturally contains.
The healthy fats help deliver the
beneficial components
of coffee to the brain and sustain the
effects longer.
These antioxidant and anti-inflammatory
effects are also likely to be responsible for the mechanism behind the
beneficial associations between
coffee consumption and liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer110 that our umbrella review found had the greatest magnitude
of effect compared with other outcomes.
The associations between high versus low consumption
of decaffeinated
coffee and lower risk
of type 2 diabetes21 and endometrial cancer40 were
of a similar magnitude to total or caffeinated
coffee, and there was a small
beneficial association between decaffeinated
coffee and lung cancer.48 The other outcomes investigated for decaffeinated
coffee showed no significant associations, though it should be noted that meta - analyses
of consumption would have much lower power to detect an
effect.