I've got a couple questions... 5 cups of coffe of day, will that not make you sleep at night? Is coffee healthy? Would 5 cups a day only recover short term memory such as the day before or also long term memery for example 5 years ago...?
Submitted by Singh on Thu, 2012-01-12 12:38pm.

coffee doesnt recover memory it just recovers memory if you have alzheimers disease

I've got a couple questions... 5 cups of coffe of day, will that not make you sleep at night? Is coffee healthy? Would 5 cups a day only recover short term memory such as the day before or also long term memery for example 5 years ago...?

Coffee does work with everyday memory when you are feeling tired and low spirited, sometimes better than gingko biloba. I find gingko biloba makes my mind wander too much and get emotional with my memory.

i think they need to do more research in peoples place of living enviroment for one first before they blame everything a person eats or drinks because alot of my past cp workers got these diseases and drank plenty of coffee and less sugar products and whatched their diets.but i am puzzled on the apt/buildings they live in because i did notice alot of mold in bathrooms mostly and even in newer apts.also they are removing asbestos away from old hospitals and workplaces but whos inspecting most apt buildings and you would be surprised to find out alot of tenents are very sick living in these apts.all over canada and the isa.who spend alot of money on nasal sprays cough syrups cold medicines ect.for ellergy problems then next thing i seen they have memory problems from this ongoing nasal problems depression and sleep deprived and breathing problems.it does not stop and many lanlords know there is mold in their buildinds many many.older homes where elderly live what do they have behind those old walls.mold i have seen plenty from working in their homes.next thing i see dementia memory lapses coughs ect.older nursing homes plenty of old moldy walls cupboards you name it its there.and most building insprctors will toss you away when you complain about these problems.

a note that this may not be as valid as it seems, aside from the fact there have not been human trials, just some indication: they tried removing the Alzheimer plaques in patients a while back with medications...removal of the plaques can result in acceleration of the disease...

aside from that on a brain study it is very common to use mice and rats as they have similar neuro-anatomy so it makes no sense to refute the testing. unless of course you want it done on humans first?

Or we could stop bleeding our economy dry by trying to pay for the billions of people who will never have enough money/health/intelligence to make a meaningful contribution to society and continue funding research to improve the productivity of those who can...

Is is truly the genre, or is it the tempo regardless of the genre? Who really knows? I find my heart rate increases when I listen to higher tempo music of any kind, so I don't feel it is specifically the genre that makes the difference

ya well we're all dying of something anyway, so all this money spent on research to make us live longer can be better spent to help where it is really needed--food and clothing for poor/poverty stricken people...there's no human cure for death so you all might as well face facts and live with it---no pun intended.

Hey,
us babyboomers just want the truth! Our bodies do not recognize disease by name. If our brain is not functioning the way it should, then maybe we should be enhancing detoxification. If we are getting every "bug" on the go then maybe we should be boosting our immune system. If our hormones are out of balance, then maybe we consider how to make our endrocrine system perform better. I think it's all about "function" You keep your car engine purring, why
don't we keep our body systems up and running? Is it time we took responsibilty/control of our own health?

Of course research findings compiled through the use of animals does not directly transfer to humans. THAT'S NOT THE POINT OF RESEARCH!!! These studies are done to merely further an academic conversation among those in the related field of interest. Results of studies like these are only used as an IDEA of what COULD be possible in humans, since mammals are similar in genetic makeup. These types of results can be taken, and the studies can be modified, in order to produce a study with ethics clearance for humans, and determine whether there is actual statistical significance that indeed shows coffee to be effective in reducing the onset of amyloid protein aggregation in the human brain. Currently, evidence of neurological degradation due to amyloid proteins is only provable through post-mortem pathological dissection (which is why mice were used). You can however use MRI scans in humans to PREDICT that the amyloids are aggregating, but it is not conclusive, making a direct relationship between this study and humans very difficult to accomplish.

Makes sense - probably helps them learn to regulate their breathing better and may well contribute to relaxation, therefore better quality sleep, therefore less daytime sleepiness

Findings done in animals do not necessarily extend to humans. Think of what happened with Thalidomide.

Well, my Dad drank coffee everyday, even at his snack at night around 8-9 p.m. and he still got Alzheimers so it doesn't work for everyone. It runs in my family, my Dad, his brother, his sister....so its scary for the 4 of us in my family.!

They use mice because they have a shorter lifespan than people so the results may be known in months or years rather than decades.

Clearly you don't understand how investigative, health-related, Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) style research works. Chances are if you actually read the published form of this study which these generalized results were drawn from, you could see from the methodology that the use of mice is necessitated. How do you think that they were able to decipher that the coffee inhibited the amyloid plaques formed in the alzheimer's process? I would be willing to bet a large sum of money that there was some sort of invasive maneuver (i.e. cranial surgery). You think that they would just open up a whole bunch of living human heads just to find out if coffee did what they were hypothesizing?? Ridiculous. Not to mention, The use of mice in experiments like this are used because developmental processes (like Alzheimer's) occur at a rate many, many times greater than in humans, therefore giving the researchers a more reasonable timeline to complete a study. Read some books before making comments like that. Its research like that that keeps you alive longer than you have been without it.

How do they know? Did they ask the mice questions before they fed them coffee and then ask them the same questions later? Did the mices' answers change after the caffeine memory reversal process?
Where do they come up with this stuff?

It's illegal to study the affects of drugs on people... this is why they are the researchers, not you!

Some scientists do lack imagination - I'm not afraid to say so. Why use mice if people can be used in the first place - as if coffee is something new to mankind? I think this is cheap marketing...

Why waste time and money doing research on mice? Who is paying for this? Who authorized this study? I'm amazed.

They could have used people from the beginning!

Obviously they don't drink enough coffee!!!