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Some of you just can't get through the day without a cup of coffee, and as soon as you open your bleary eyes, you find yourselves stumbling toward the coffee machine before you can function.
Then again, you might not think something designed to get your heart beating would be top of the list for Bryan Johnson's must-have beverages.
Known as the guy who reportedly spends $2 million a year to try and de-age himself, Bryan Johnson's somewhat controversial methods include measuring his son's erection data, hosting his own Netflix series, and undertaking shockwave therapy.
Despite critics of his more extreme measures, like injecting his son's plasma, Johnson also tries to share healthy advice on how we can improve our lives, like how to try and remove microplastics from our bodies.
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Although Johnson only eats between the hours of 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. and goes to bed at 8:30 p.m., he's not as different from you and us in many ways – maybe just not de-aging our penises.
It's hard to argue with some of Johnson's results, especially as he looks completely different from how he did back in 2017.
Johnson swore off caffeine a year ago, but apparently, a study from Louisiana's Tulane University has made him rethink things.
The findings suggest that coffee drinkers have a 16% lower chance of death from any cause, as well as a 31% lower risk of cardiovascular disease when compared to those who avoid the brown stuff.
In a TikTok video, Johnson adds the caveat that it depends on when you drink your coffee. Also, we imagine he's going for the good stuff, not a festive gingerbread latte that's packed with sugary syrups and topped with mountains of cream.
Tracking the coffee consumption of over 40,000 US adults across a 10-year period, Tulane University maintained that morning coffee drinkers can see some impressive benefits.
Johnson reiterates: "'Here's the catch, it matters when you drink the coffee."
Drinking coffee in the afternoon to keep yourself awake means you might be missing out on longevity benefits. Coffee only has a maximum six-hour lifespan in your body, meaning a cup consumed at 3 p.m. could wreck your sleep if you're trying to get 40 winks before 9 p.m.
Johnson reminded us: "If I haven't said enough, sleep is the number one thing you can do for your overall health."
Still, when coffee isn't interrupting our sleep, it's supposedly boosting our metabolic rate and improving vascular function. Coffee is also said to provide anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective benefits by instigating autophagy.
Autophagy is the body's natural cellular cleanup process, with coffee's polyphenols being attributed to helping our body recycle what it doesn't need.
Imploring us to stick to only drinking coffee toward the start of the day, Johnson concludes that you should also skip the sugar because you don't need it: "When you do caffeine right, it may also double as a longevity therapy."
