Shingles vaccine may reduce risk of dementia by 20%. Maybe more

[ergophobe]

Louisa Nicola is a serious scientist. Not BS

https://x.com/louisanicola_/status/2021961740012204418

[ergophobe]

And WWAI...

2-5 cups of *caffeinated* coffee per day results in an almost 20% decrease in dementia
https://x.com/Brady_H/status/2020913570309984747/photo/1

[rcjordan]

> 5 cups of *caffeinated* coffee per day

One day, people overcome with dementia will gather & clamor to touch my robe. I will do the old Ernest Angley "Be healed!" act.

[Rupert]

so 10 cups 40% decrease?

[rcjordan]

>so 10 cups 40% decrease?

I'll let you know, hhh.

[ergophobe]

Looking further into the coffee study, two details

1. Previous studies were insufficient to really demonstrate the link. This one does fairly convincingly

2. And more important to me personally, they found the same thing with tea drinkers.

Since there's a very different polyphenol mix between tea and coffee and decaf coffee had no effect, it seems like it's the caffeine itself.

[rcjordan]

> very different polyphenol mix

For some reason that I have not explored, real tea (black, green) is on the "Do Not" list for kidney transplants.

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Besides, tea is just nice & warm. No kick.

[ergophobe]

Interesting.

After an issue with anemia, I learned that yea can block up to 70% of iron absorption. For coffee the number is much lower, like 20-30%.

And yes, tea is nice and warm without much of a kick unless it is very strong. And I like the taste. Coffee I have just never learned to like.