Yesterday I did a horrible thing. I wrote about a new study that suggested drinking too much coffee could maybe increase a personโ€™s risk of osteoarthritis, arthropathy, and obesity. Iโ€™ve just been in knots about it ever since the story was published, and so to make it up to youโ€”to myself reallyโ€”Iโ€™m bringing you good sciency news about coffee.

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A brand new study finds that coffee is beneficial in the fight against Parkinsonโ€™s disease. If this feel like dรฉjร  vu, don’t worry, this isn’t a glitch in the Matrix; in the past two years alone, we have written about three different studies that found a link between coffee consumption and some sort of lowered risk or earlier detection of the disease, but none of them had urate! As reported by Yahoo!, a new study from researchers at Harvard Medical School published in the Journal of Parkinsonโ€™s Disease found that urate, a compound found in coffee, possesses neuroprotective properties, similar to those of caffeine discovered in previous research. This, according to lead researcher Dr. Rachit Bakshi, lends credence to โ€œthe possibility of [coffee-via-caffeine-and-urateโ€™s] disease-slowing potential.”

To support their conclusion, the researchers interviewed 566 individualsโ€”369 with Parkinsonโ€™s and 197 withoutโ€”and measured their caffeine and urate levels. After adjusting for age, sex, and body mass index, the researchers found โ€œthe likelihood of developing the condition decreased significantlyโ€ as coffee consumption increased. Per Yahoo, โ€œcompared to those who who drank the least coffee, the prevalence of Parkinson’s was over 70% lower in those who drank the most.โ€ Now that’s news you can brew.
We can all now breathe a big sigh of relief with coffee’s positive effects now balance out the negative. With my sins absolved I can finally enjoy a nice cuppa again. I just couldn’t look my coffee in the face knowing I had betrayed it so.

Zac Cadwaladerย is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.ย Read more Zac Cadwaladerย on Sprudge.

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