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Espresso shots shown to prevent protein clumping in the lab
Yay, more good news for us coffee drinkers!
I am always interested in the research that is coming out with regard to coffee as a coffee drinker. Yes, so I am biased. Coffee had been considered unhealthy for many years but research over the years has shown multiple health benefits (including living longer) — I first discovered this after encountering a coffee expert who told me of all the antioxidants and natural ingredients in coffee beans — I was converted.
This research just out, though, is even more fascinating — it showed that espresso can reduce clumping of proteins in the brain that lead to Alzheimer’s — wow!
In this fascinating research by Roberto Tira and colleagues of the University of Verona in Italy — no surprise in the location there — they incubated various coffee compounds found in freshly extracted coffee and also a complete espresso compound next to tau proteins.
Tau proteins are natural occurring in the human brain but it is precisely these that end up becoming dysfunctional and clumping up to form blobs of protein that the brain can no longer clean out. This is also a key indicator of Alzheimer’s.
