The quality of nutritional research is so bad, I just don't trust a single headline like this.
Im sure the nutrition researchers are doing a fine job. Its the headline writers who are the problem
Your comment is 2hrs after the one above it that quoted the sample size is 31. 🤫 IIRC, that's ~0.31% of the minimum sample size for any decent test. 🤷🏼♂️
tl;dr: It's the "researchers" and the chatbots.
"Initial Nutrition Experiment Finds the Interaction Between Coffee and the Gut Microbiome May Be a Good Candidate For Further Study"
Uh hunh... And yet?
Man, we waste a lot of money researching coffee to make fucking obvious conclusions.
Sure if we are fine with where we are at, however if we want to make advancements across the board it’s more complicated.
These things still need to be confirmed , their underlying mechanisms studied, what causes them to activate in one way or another, identifying the most desirable effects, replicating in more efficient way. Pretty much doing this with everything on all fronts is where we are at with scientific advancements.
In this case: produce a caffeine like supplement for people that absolutely detest coffee or for some other reason can’t have caffeine directly
These things still need to be confirmed , their underlying mechanisms studied, what causes them to activate in one way or another
These studies have been taking money and making the same conclusions for 160 years. While we fund this shit, other important questions do not get studied. This research is the bottom of the barrel in science.
It's not just caffeine, there are many compounds in coffee extracts that increase blood flow, some lower blood serum cholesterol, some raise it. A casual PubMed search will find 4, 282 manuscripts since 1866.
As usual, ignore the downvote tantrums. Technically accurate is the best kind. Keep it up, please. 🤌🏼
Unoriginal well funded research slop is the welfare of the academic world. Grad students gotta eat ramen.
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