From the Coffee Shop
Coffee’s Effects on Hormone Levels
An interesting new study on coffee shows that drinking coffee can alter estrogen levels in women and what is most surprising is that the impacts vary by race. Coffee appears to lower estrogen in white women, but tends to raise the levels in Asian women. These effects appear to be so minimal that they have no real impact on healthy women. However, this study does help to understand how caffeine is metabolized by different genetic groups. The study was published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and studied women aged 18-44. On average, these women consumed 90 mg of...
