Women who drink four or more cups of coffee a day are a five times less prone to get depressed. Researchers believe that caffeine in coffee may alter chemistry of the brain but decaffeinated coffee did not have the similar effect. Women those drink two to three cup of coffee reduced their risk by fifteen percent.
In study researchers from Harvard University, Boston compared the risk of coffee intake and risk of depression among nearly fifty thousand women over the period of ten years. The caffeine works like antidepressant pills by halting the production of certain hormones like serotonin. They also found that it improves the feeling of well-being and gives energy over long periods.
The study participants were also asked about the quantity of coffee they drank, consumption of alcohol, consumption of chocolate bars each day and whether they did exercise. It was found that coffee had sturdy influence in diminishing depression. However, the decaf range didn’t work at all.
According Dr Michel Lucas, their findings support probable defensive effects of caffeine mainly from coffee drinking on risk of depression. Further analyses are required to corroborate this finding and to resolve whether usual caffeinated coffee consumption may contribute to prevention or treatment of depression. They indicated that caffeine had well-known psychostimulant effects including increased sensations of well-being and energy.
Researchers believe that in future people could use coffee as an antidepressant or as a means of preventing depression. It is already known that coffee can help fend off arrange of ailments counting prostate cancer, gout and Alzheimer’s and may even improve brain power. But it’s too much is not beneficial at all.
Last year a study in Finland discovered that men who drank more than four cups a day were also far less likely to become depressed. Women are far more likely to develop depression than men and statistics show that one in seven will be affected at some point in their lives.
Researchers advised pregnant women to drink no more than two cups a day to diminish their probability of a miscarriage or their babies being underweight. The study was published in Archives of Internal Medicine.