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Drinking coffee helps keep your DNA from breaking apart, researchers find
The idea of coffee as an antioxidant has been around for a while and now a recent study shows that coffee can also serve as a way to stop your DNA from spontaneously breaking apart.
Researchers from the University of Kaiserslautern studied the effects of drinking a dark roast coffee blend on the frequency of spontaneous DNA strand breaks.
Two groups of men were made to drink 750 mL of water or coffee per day for 4 weeks.
Before the study, both groups showed a similar level of spontaneous DNA strand breakage in white blood cells. Afterwards, they found that there was now a 27 percent difference between both groups, with the coffee group displaying significantly less breakage.
They concluded that regular coffee consumption leads to greater DNA integrity. DNA degradation has been previously shown to lead to mutations, diseases, and even cancer in some cases.
The study was published in the European Journal of Nutrition. — Bea Montenegro/ELR, GMA News
The study was published in the European Journal of Nutrition. — Bea Montenegro/ELR, GMA News
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