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by hilsdev 11 days ago
Wow I have been mixing 5g of creatine in my morning for the past several months, this is terrifying.
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You don’t have Parkinson and you probably don’t take that much coffee

Usual espresso from 42mm puck is 18g of coffee beans in, something around 40g of total coffee out. This has 90…150 mg of caffeine. The study focused on people having more than 300 mg daily.

So don’t drink more than 2 cups per day and you’ll be fine.

Also don't smoke or do any of the other things this study didn't control for but do correlate with caffeine consumption in the general population.
I drink 3 moka pots each morning and usually one in the afternoon. I don’t have Parkinson’s right now, but for all I know I am pre diagnosis…. I have been getting tingling feelings in my fingers lately
> So don’t drink more than 2 cups per day and you’ll be fine.

Easier said than done...

Oh 2 cups. Ok.

We’re all fucked.

The result in the study is a few percentage points difference in the disease rating scale after 5 years, with relatively large variation in the underlying individual results.

The potential for there to be a mechanism that accelerates progression is a great thing to publish, but the data looks like it is in the "do you want to enjoy coffee for 5 years or go without to maybe avoid speeding it up a little bit" category.