Coffee protects against depression. This is not old peasant wisdom, but a fact that US researchers have been researching for a long time. The connections are still a little unclear, but a test with almost 60,000 American women over a period of 10 years confirmed the thesis that coffee protects against depression.
The healthy coffee bean
In the long-term test of the study, it became clear that women who drink little or no coffee are much more prone to depression than women for whom a coffee party every day is very important. Just enjoying two or three cups of coffee reduced the risk of depression by 15% compared to the anti-coffee drinkers. If you enjoyed four cups of coffee a day, the value even increased by 20%. If the annual consumption of Germans were to increase from the current 150 liters, there would hardly be any people suffering from depression. Unfortunately, this thesis is very daring, because depressions often have pathological characteristics that you certainly cannot tackle with coffee alone.
Why can drinking coffee be so healthy?
Coffee contains many substances that act as antioxidants on humans. For this reason, coffee also reduces the symptoms of prostate cancer, here too research is still groping in the dark. However, one thing has always been clear. The effect of caffeine on the nervous system, in its stimulating way, has long been known. After all, humans do not ingest most of the caffeine through the cola, but 80% through the enjoyment of coffee.
