However, if you drink your coffee boiled and unfiltered, via French press, or Turkish style, you will ingest large levels
of cafestol.
Not exact matches
It is believed that kahweol and
cafestol palmitate increase the liver's production
of glutathione, the master antioxidant, by as much as 700 %.
Research on the antioxidant activity
of trigonelline,
cafestol and kahweol has been less extensively investigated in humans.
In fact,
cafestol is the most potent dietary cholesterol - elevating agent known, said Dr. David Moore, professor
of molecular and cellular biology at BCM, and Dr. Marie - Louise Ricketts, a postdoctoral student and first author
of the report.»
There are two specific diterpenes in coffee,
cafestol and kahweal, which produce biological effects compatible with anticarcinogenic properties, including the induction
of phase II enzymes involved in carcinogen detoxification, [6] specific inhibition
of the activity
of phase I enzyme responsible for carcinogen activation and stimulation
of intracellular antioxidant defence mechanisms [7].