 Drinking coffee, what a tasty countermeasure. To your health! ☕️ “And, our human trial study suggested that drinking coffee (approximately 1–2 cups per day) has a potentiated ability to suppress the infection with present SARS-CoV-2 strains (including the Omicron variant), and proposed that drinking coffee can be adopted in the new COVID-19 protection guide to limit the risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2.” - from the study 21 comments
The study: https://cellandbioscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13578-023-01154-9 3 of 3/end @davidaugust raising my eyebrow because I am a daily coffee drinker, have had all my COVID vaccines and boosters only not having done this most recent one and I felt incredibly awful and miserable for a week when I finally got COVID last month Ok, admittedly that coffee that my son made me every morning and left outside my door sure did make me feel a little better. But I went right back to sleep after I finished it. Lol. @NerdRage42 sleep and rest is good for that, glad you could rest. Yeah, no matter how many countermeasures we use, viruses are still very good at what they do. Hope your recovery was fast and full. @davidaugust mostly recovered in the energy department. But I've been getting migraines in the middle of the night every so often and have had a hard time sleeping. @davidaugust sleep and then coffee in the mornings. This was what my son made for me that first morning. @davidaugust I was gifted a nice Saeco Vienna Plus espresso machine years ago and a guy helped me adjust the gears and it pulls great shots. That thing has helped me immensely. Even more so when Starbucks union-busted my location where my friends all worked. @NerdRage42 oh that’s so cool. Sounds like it’s been nice to have the machine, and (I just thought of this so please forgive its silly) to rage against the machine with it. ☕️✊ @NerdRage42 @davidaugust Also, the page states that they only tested 64 individuals over TWO days. Minus the control group that only drank water, it might have been maybe 40 individuals. That is a very small group and a very short time. I think it's best not to jump to conclusions. Apparently, this is also not the first study "finding" this connection: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7698499/ @Lilimapute @davidaugust oh yeah. I missed that. See, these sample sizes are so small and then they're reported on like it's a huge breakthrough. I mean, I'd love to have said coffee saved my life. 🤣 @NerdRage42 @Lilimapute Thank you for sharing that! And nothing wrong with waiting more than 3 days for things to get peer reviewed too. 😉 If a sample size bears out statistically sound notable results, study sizes do not need to conform to our preference for higher numbers. That's a big if, yes. This study may not satisfy it, but we don't need to discount a study based on a participant number we don't _feel_ like is big enough either.  @davidaugust Thanks for sharing, David! At 6-8 espresso a day I should be safe then, right? ☕️😂 @Linkshaender That';s be nice. Likely safer than without, but viruses are frustratingly good at doing what they do. I hate this virus. I'm still masking, avoiding crowds, improving ventilation and staying up to date with shots. But we get to feel like the coffee we drink is even healthier now! Whoo Hoo! 😆  @davidaugust Could you find some proof of chocolate helping to avoid Covid19 infections now please? Every extra measure appreciated 😍✊️ @davidaugust @lappenjammer DARK chocolate at a guess. As with any intervention, this is a piece of a complicated puzzle. I have two cups in the AM and would consider it a part of my Long COVID protocol. Obviously, coffee is not the cure nor would huge amounts necessarily be salutary. We're addressing biology--and that's complicated!  @davidaugust this is better than the alternative reason why I was the only one in our household not to catch the latest round: plain, dumb luck. @skribe sometimes in life it is better to be lucky than good. Or, even better than that: be lucky and good. Sadly, luck is not really something we can plan for. I wrote a whole article about that once. Glad you dodged the latest round! |
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“…findings suggest…coffee can limit SARS-CoV-2 infection by inhibiting…interactions... Coffee also reduced protein levels... Bioactive compounds in coffee… showed inhibitory effects. The human trial showed that sera from regular and decaffeinated coffee consumers can suppress SARS-CoV-2, including the Omicron variant. …authors suggest…coffee intake could be a potential dietary strategy to prevent infection in…post-COVID era.” - from the article
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