Coffee healthy life often drink coffee to prevent gallstones

The chlorogenic acid in coffee and lactones produced during roasting can enhance liver-gallbladder-intestinal activity and prevent cholesterol from rising, thus preventing gallstones.

Cholelithiasis is a common disease in middle-aged and elderly people, mainly due to decreased gallbladder contractility, delayed bile emptying, excessive cholesterol content in bile, the formation of cholesterol crystals and precipitation into stones caused. Gallstones usually have no obvious symptoms in the early stage, only do not like greasy, when the stone embedded immediately will cause severe abdominal pain, can radiate to the right shoulder back, but also accompanied by nausea, vomiting, serious can also cause gallbladder perforation, even life-threatening. A recent study in the United States found that drinking coffee regularly can effectively prevent gallstones.

The researchers followed 46,000 volunteers aged 40 to 75 (all without a history of gallstones) and found that after 10 years, volunteers who drank 2 to 3 cups of coffee a day were 40% less likely to develop gallstones; volunteers who drank more than 4 cups of coffee a day were 45% less likely to develop gallstones. Researchers believe that chlorogenic acid in coffee and lactones produced during baking can enhance liver-gallbladder-intestinal activity, promote bile secretion, facilitate bile secretion into the gallbladder and into the intestinal tract, prevent bile from flowing in a normal way, ensure good intestinal work, avoid cholestasis, accelerate lipid metabolism, prevent cholesterol from rising, and thus prevent gallstones. However, this effect was limited to caffeinated coffee, and other caffeinated beverages such as tea did not have this effect, which may be related to their lower caffeine content. In view of the exciting nerve effect of coffee, it is recommended that the elderly drink in the morning or noon, drink 1~2 cups a day, the concentration is not too high, so as not to affect sleep at night.