Researchers report that drinking coffee cuts the risk of cirrhosis of the liver from alcohol -- by 22 percent per cup each day -- but they stopped short of saying doctors should prescribe coffee for that reason.
The report from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland, California, was based on a look at data from 125,580 people.
"These data support the hypothesis that there is an ingredient in coffee that protects against cirrhosis, especially alcoholic cirrhosis," concluded the report published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
You will be fine if you are an alcoholic; just do what you normally do to sober up.
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Two of the common props of the archetypal philosopher are alcohol and coffee. (Existentialism throws in berets and cigarettes.) New research from Kaiser Permanente Oakland suggests that the coffee might offset some of the alcohol's potential harm.
How can I not point out a study that says coffee is good for the liver. Read this in a New Scientist article on Liver troubles:
A frequent argument of (weak) support for alternative medicine is that, well, maybe it doesn't help much, but it couldn't hurt.
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