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British Journal of Nutrition article on effects of coffee first thing in the morning

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Today’s Times has an article on coffee first thing in the morning, it summarises, “Put simply our blood sugar control is impaired when the first thing our bodies come into contact with is coffee especially after a night of disrupted sleep” The whole article is on page 13
This could certainly be part of my problem
 
Annemarie said:
Today’s Times has an article on coffee first thing in the morning, it summarises, “Put simply our blood sugar control is impaired when the first thing our bodies come into contact with is coffee especially after a night of disrupted sleep” The whole article is on page 13
This could certainly be part of my problem
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On the other hand, without coffee first thing, I have trouble remembering what species I am, let alone my name 🙂
 
Anitram said:
It's in other papers, too. It says it's the caffeine that's the problem but I thought it was already well established that caffeine can affect insulin sensitivity.

Martin
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FWIW, when I looked into it I came to the conclusion that the situation was really unclear. Eg here's a recent metastudy: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2225411018300014


This is a systematic review of clinical trials that evaluated the effects of coffee consumption on glucose metabolism, summarising data from eight studies involving a total of 247 subjects. Although there is heterogeneity among the studies, the results suggested impairment on glucose response for consumption of caffeinated coffee in the short-term (hours), and an improvement on glucose metabolism (glucose and insulin response) in long-term duration (weeks). Moreover, no significant change was observed for insulin sensitivity. The benefits of coffee consumption may manifest in the long-term, as indicated in the reduction of T2DM risk in epidemiological studies (years) (Table 4).


Note the "heterogeneity" - ie the studies say different things. For me: insufficient reason to give up an essential (for me) food group like coffee, and maybe it has long term benefits.
 
I think a lots of these things vary a great deal from person to person (probably part of the confusion!)
 
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