Ein moderater täglicher Tee- oder Kaffeekonsum könnte das Demenzrisiko senken, berichten Forscher im Journal of the American Medical Association | Das Demenzrisiko sank in Studiengruppen, die Tee oder koffeinhaltigen Kaffee konsumierten, um rund 18 Prozent
Daily cups of caffeinated coffee or mugs of tea may lower dementia risk
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>Downing a few cups of caffeinated coffee or mugs of tea each day may lower the risk of developing dementia, according to a long-term study.
>The [lowest risk was tied to drinking around two to three cups of caffeinated coffee](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/10.1001/jama.2025.27259?guestAccessKey=b5f53c96-c7a8-47fa-b807-8b464361c4d8&utm_source=for_the_media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=020926) or one to two cups of tea per day, compared with having none, the researchers report February 9 in the *Journal of the American Medical Association*. Consuming more of the beverages didn’t lower the risk further. There wasn’t a link between decaffeinated coffee and dementia risk.
>The new U.S. analysis included data from the 1980s to early 2023 collected for the [Nurses’ Health Study](https://nurseshealthstudy.org/) and the [Health Professionals Follow-up Study](https://hsph.harvard.edu/research/health-professionals/). The researchers selected more than 130,000 participants who had not had cancer, Parkinson’s disease or dementia. Participants had answered dietary questionnaires every few years. Researchers tallied cases of dementia from death records or from participants’ self-reported medical diagnoses.
>Moderate daily consumption of caffeinated coffee for women was around 2.5 cups and the highest consumption was around 4.5 cups, while men in those categories drank less.
[Read more here](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/daily-coffee-tea-lower-dementia-risk) and the [research article here](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2844764?guestAccessKey=b5f53c96-c7a8-47fa-b807-8b464361c4d8&utm_source=for_the_media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=020926).
Tea is what I drink so I don’t drink so much coffee.
I wonder if this is why my grandma with Alzheimer’s drank so much coffee. It was hard to get her to drink water, all she wanted was coffee.
Crackpot Theory: It’s waste management (consistent shitting)
Source: it’s something a random country lady told me when I was a kid