Coffee has replaced tea as the most popular refreshing drink for modern people.
Many people have formed the habit of drinking a cup of coffee to refresh themselves after getting up and a cup of coffee to improve efficiency before work. What’s more, in order to surprise a certain exam or a certain project, they may drink a lot of coffee in a short period of time.
At this time, some people began to worry, will drinking coffee for a long time be harmful to the body? A few days ago, Dr. Clove paid attention to the impact of coffee on the cardiovascular system of human body. It can be said that coffee has little impact on the cardiovascular system.
There has just refuted the rumor, and there are rumors here that drinking coffee on an empty stomach will lead to gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer… Well, let’s take the evidence to analyze it.
Coffee does have some effects on the gastrointestinal tract
Caffeine is the main component of coffee that plays a refreshing role, and it is also the main component of tea. However, caffeine and decaffeinated coffee are not the only ones that can cause gastrointestinal problems, but also may cause digestive system symptoms.
The current research believes that the effects of coffee on gastrointestinal tract mainly include: increasing gastric acid secretion, relaxing esophageal sphincter to aggravate acid reflux, and promoting peristalsis of small intestine.
If you have more gastric acid, will you get gastric ulcer? Esophageal sphincter is loose, will it aggravate the symptoms of acid regurgitation and heartburn?
But coffee does not cause ulcers
In 2013, a study studied whether drinking coffee was related to peptic ulcer in 8,013 healthy people. The final result was that the occurrence of gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer was not related to drinking coffee, but mainly related to the presence or absence of Helicobacter pylori infection and smoking.
In other words, in order to prevent the occurrence of ulcers, sterilization (Helicobacter pylori) and quitting smoking are only useful. There is no need to quit coffee at all!
Similarly, after studying the relationship between coffee and gastroesophageal reflux disease, which is mainly characterized by acid regurgitation and heartburn, it is also believed that coffee will not cause gastroesophageal reflux disease.
In this study, the author also synthesized many previous studies on the relationship between coffee and ulcer, and found no correlation between coffee and the occurrence of digestive tract ulcer.
How on earth should I drink coffee?
Coffee is indeed an irritating food. Theoretically, it is indeed an irritating substance, which can stimulate gastric acid secretion and will not directly lead to ulcer, but may increase the risk of ulcer.
Therefore, the attitude towards coffee is summed up as [due to human factors, enough is enough].
1. These people can continue to drink safely.
If you have formed the habit of drinking a cup of coffee on an empty stomach every morning, and you do not have abdominal pain, heartburn and other ulcers or gastroesophageal reflux, then it is good to continue your habit, which is just like drinking water and eating, and has been integrated into your life.
2. These people had better not drink
If discomfort such as acid regurgitation and heartburn occurs after drinking coffee, Or have gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, gastrointestinal surgery recovery period and other gastrointestinal diseases, It is best to gradually quit the habit of drinking coffee. Although there is not sufficient evidence that coffee can cause digestive tract ulcers, there is evidence that coffee may aggravate ulcers or delay ulcer healing.
Coffee or not? Just be happy!
In fact, not only in terms of digestion, Long-term drinking of coffee does not have much impact on several health indicators that people are most concerned about, including blood pressure, heart rate, blood lipid, blood sugar, etc. Even if there is a slight impact, most of them are beneficial to the body. For most people, the benefits of moderate drinking of coffee are still higher than the harm (if any).
So as to whether to drink coffee or not, as long as you are happy.