What are the pros and cons of drinking coffee?

Benefits of drinking coffee

Coffee contains certain nutrients. Coffee beans contain carbohydrates, protein, fat, niacin, potassium, crude fiber, water and other nutrients.

Coffee is good for your skin. Taking a bath with coffee powder is a thermotherapy that helps with weight loss.

Coffee can help sober you up. Drinking coffee after drinking alcohol will cause the acetaldehyde converted from alcohol to be rapidly oxidized, decomposed into water and carbon dioxide and excreted from the body.

Coffee is anti-depression. A small amount of coffee can make people feel refreshed, happy and relieve depression.

Coffee can improve constipation. Coffee can stimulate gastrointestinal hormones or peristaltic hormones, produce a laxative effect, and can be used as a quick laxative.

Coffee has antioxidant and heart protecting effects, strengthens muscles and bones, benefits the waist and knees, stimulates appetite, eliminates fat and accumulation, benefits the orifices and removes dampness, promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis, and calms wind and stops spasms.

Disadvantages of drinking coffee

Coffee may increase the risk of heart disease.

Causes nervousness. For people prone to anxiety disorders, caffeine can make symptoms such as sweaty palms, palpitations, and tinnitus worse.

Inducing osteoporosis Caffeine itself has a good diuretic effect. If you drink coffee for a long time and in large quantities, it is easy to cause bone loss, which will have an adverse effect on the preservation of bone mass.

Caffeine can increase stomach acid, and continued high-dose intake can lead to peptic ulcers, erosive esophagitis, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Caffeine intoxication includes addiction and a range of adverse physical and psychological reactions, such as nervousness, irritability, anxiety, tremors, muscle twitches (hyperreflexia), insomnia and palpitations.