Drinking Coffee Like This Can Slash Your Alzheimer's Risk, Study Says - Best Life

A study out of the Krembil Brain Institute in Toronto, Canada, has found that drinking your coffee a certain way can actually slash your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

"Coffee consumption does seem to have some correlation to a decreased risk of developing Alzheimer's," Donald Weaver, PhD, co-director of the Krembil Brain Institute and the study's co-author, said in a statement.

The 2018 study from the Krembil Brain Institute, which was published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, set out to investigate the theorized connection between coffee consumption and a decreased risk of developing Alzheimer's.

The researchers decided to test the compounds found in different beans, including light roast, dark roast, and decaffeinated coffee.

Since a longer roast leads to an increase in the amount of phenylindanes, the researchers concluded that dark roast coffee provided better protection against the neurological condition.

But the Krembali Brain Institute team also discovered that levels of phenylindanes—which give coffee its bitter flavor—were as strong in dark roasted decaffeinated coffee as they were in a regular caffeinated dark roast.

The Krembali Brain Institute scientists acknowledged that their findings show more research is needed on the connection between the coffee and cognitive decline.

In a statement, Weaver quickly dispelled any ideas of dark roast coffee being a miracle elixir when it comes to Alzheimer's, emphasizing that more research on the subject is necessary.

When it comes to coffee and your overall health, it's not only dark roast varieties that have a benefit.