Coffee Can Break Your DNA!
So many studies say coffee is hurting you or coffee is helping you… everyone wants something out of coffee, but all it wants to do is give! Howdy hot brown water hawkers, Trace here for DNews. Scientists have again, and again, and again tried to find out what coffee is doing to the human body. A study in Scientific Reports lays out nicely, coffee consumption has been linked to protective effects on various common pathologies such as cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, type 2 diabetes, some types of cancer, and hearing functions, and it may predispose to others such as sleep disturbance. Whew. Scientists have been studying coffee since the 1960s, and a 1972 study in Cell's Biophysical Journal tried to find out exactly what it was doing to our cells, noting caffeine binds to broken DNA, and that if it's present during the formation of new DNA, it can cause breaks in chromosomes (which is why we've long known pregnant humans sh...