I met a guy once who told me that his blood pressure remains high despite medication. Asking him more questions, I learnt he consumes more than 5 cups of coffee per day.
Personally, I have difficulty sleeping if I had coffee in the afternoon. On the other hand, my friend would have a headache if she does not have coffee for the day.
So is coffee good or bad for us? One friend told me once that coffee is a vasoconstrictor which made me stop my intake of coffee for months.
Yesterday, I received the following SMS: "U mean to say all coffee whether herbal or decaffeinated are really bad for health? Do u have some link regarding it?" This stems from my sharing that I avoid coffee because its a vasoconstrictor. I have to answer this carefully and I would like to cite an article I read online on THE EFFECTS OF CAFFEINE ON BLOOD VESSELS. Since blood vessels increase in size during a migraine, caffeine in coffee would help migraine sufferers by constricting blood vessels. On the other hand, caffeine causes the body to produce stress hormones which leads to higher blood pressure. Hence, coffee is not good for people with high blood pressure or heart condition. One can read about the cited article by clicking on the above title...
Personally, I have difficulty sleeping if I had coffee in the afternoon. On the other hand, my friend would have a headache if she does not have coffee for the day.
So is coffee good or bad for us? One friend told me once that coffee is a vasoconstrictor which made me stop my intake of coffee for months.
Yesterday, I received the following SMS: "U mean to say all coffee whether herbal or decaffeinated are really bad for health? Do u have some link regarding it?" This stems from my sharing that I avoid coffee because its a vasoconstrictor. I have to answer this carefully and I would like to cite an article I read online on THE EFFECTS OF CAFFEINE ON BLOOD VESSELS. Since blood vessels increase in size during a migraine, caffeine in coffee would help migraine sufferers by constricting blood vessels. On the other hand, caffeine causes the body to produce stress hormones which leads to higher blood pressure. Hence, coffee is not good for people with high blood pressure or heart condition. One can read about the cited article by clicking on the above title...
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