Is there any validity to the rumour that drinking coffee may help prevent Dementia? New researches have found sufficient evidence to suggest that there is a link between drinking coffee and the prevention of Dementia.

Dementia is not a disease, but rather a serious neurological disorder resulting from a disease or disorder. It affects someone’s intellectual and mental abilities, disabling the bodily functions. Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common cause of Dementia in people over the age of 65.

In the January, 2009 issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, an article was published regarding, A Finnish Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging and Dementia (CAIDE) Study. The findings of this study were revealed, stating that coffee drinkers are at less risk of suffering from Dementia than those who drink little or no coffee at all. It further noted that the lowest risk was with moderate coffee drinkers who consumed from three to five cups a day.

This study is just one in a global research series that relates coffee drinkers to Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia. These findings are not yet conclusive because they need to be confirmed by many other studies.

Associate Professor, Mila Kivipelto of the University of Kuopio in Finland and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden commented, “It opens the possibility that dietary interventions could modify the risk of Dementia.”

Another study by a team of researchers for the Journal of Neuroinflamation verified that when they gave rabbits a caffeine supplement, the vital barrier between the brain and the main blood supply was protected from the dementia-causing damage that cholesterol can inflict. This barrier is a filter that protects the central nervous system from potentially harmful chemicals that are in the rest of the bloodstream. A recent experiment showed that as little as one cup of coffee a day was enough to generate these benefits.

Their previous studies have suggested that caffeine does lower the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease, and their recent studies are opening up the explanations as to why.

Coffee has been a very controversial subject regarding health for some time. Many years ago, it was linked to a range of health problems that included diabetes complications and miscarriages.

Recent studies, however, are revealing that coffee is actually more beneficial to our health than was assumed. Besides the new findings that coffee can help prevent age-related Dementia, it is also being accredited with the prevention of certain cancers such as ovarian and liver cancer.

An article in the November, 2006 issue of USA Today stated that the results of experiments with caffeine intake revealed that coffee may not only help to prevent Alzheimer’s Disease, but also Parkinson’s Disease. It was suggested that five cups of coffee a day could be enough to ward off the degenerative diseases. It further stated that at the time of publication, approximately six million people in the United States are affected by some form of Dementia.

For more up-to-date information on the effects that caffeine has on Dementia and other health issues, a great site to visit is MedlinePlus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health.

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