- 07 Dec 2015 00:00
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Coffee consumption rapidly reduces background DNA strand breaks in healthy humans
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26632023
Coffee prevents DNA degeneration, aging and thus most cancers? Even inherited diseases? Stay tuned.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26632023
The full article is behind a paywall, but from the looks of it, they performed a comet assay to determine the number of DNA breaks in participant's blood cells at various intervals of coffee consumption. For those unfamiliar, the comet assay is when the DNA of a single cell is removed and then forced through a gel. If the DNA is fragmented, the smaller pieces move fastest and largest pieces move slowest. This seperates all the pieces by size, and you can use that to determine how fragmented the DNA was inside the cell.
Coffee prevents DNA degeneration, aging and thus most cancers? Even inherited diseases? Stay tuned.