Flutterby™! : Coffe counteracts alcohol

Drinking coffee could help protect your liver from the effects of too much alcohol.

“Consuming coffee seems to have some protective benefits against alcoholic cirrhosis, and the more coffee a person consumes the less risk they seem to have of being hospitalized or dying of alcoholic cirrhosis,” said Arthur Klatsky, MD, an investigator with Kaiser Permanente’s Division of Research and the lead author of the study. “We did not see a similar protective association between coffee and non-alcoholic cirrhosis.”