001: Coffee
Mastering Nutrition Episode 1
I'm starting the podcast with coffee, because I start my day with coffee.
Why I drink coffee and won't apologize for it, but why I'm skeptical of the large body of literature associating coffee consumption with reduced disease risk.
Do we drink coffee by choice? Sort of. I discuss why our genes may play a role in our
coffee consumption and may be the ultimate influence on the risk of diseases that ultimately cannot be changed by coffee consumption.
Research on coffee's association with health and disease
Genetic polymorphisms related to coffee consumption: Rs2472297, Rs4410790, Rs762551
Update 5/7/16: Inspired by the recent Thrive Market article on how to make cold brew coffee, I have started making my own as my default form of coffee (see my pic on Instagram). It is less acidic than hot-brewed coffee and can be served both hot and iced. Compared to hot-brewed coffee (including iced coffee) I find that it tastes much better with less sweetener. I typically use about 5 grams of honey or unrefined sugar but I use zero sweetener in cold brew. One batch makes a concentrate that can be diluted to 13 12-oz cups of coffee, so making it in batches that can be kept in the fridge is an enormous time-saver. The Thrive article was inspiring, but the idea of using its suggestions to buy individual pieces of equipment (ball jars, mesh sieve, cheesecloth, etc) was thoroughly uninspiring, so I bought this simple kit from Amazon.
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