If you’re a coffee lover, you know the day doesn’t truly begin until that first sip hits the system, right? But did you know your morning brew might be doing more harm than good? An AIIMS-trained gastroenterologist recently shared some common coffee mistakes that could be quietly affecting your gut and liver health. Scroll on to know more about this.
Are You Ruining Your Coffee?
Dr Saurabh Sethi is a gastroenterologist trained at AIIMS, Harvard, and Stanford universities. He often takes to his Instagram page to share tips that can help you improve your gut and overall health. Recently, he shared seven common coffee mistakes that could be secretly harming your gut and liver health. From drinking coffee on an empty stomach to adding too much sugar or artificial sweeteners, he listed a series of things that you might be doing wrong with your coffee.
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Common Coffee Mistakes To Avoid To Stay Healthy
With a post titled ‘7 worst coffee habits wrecking your gut+liver health’, he shared the following mistakes that you should avoid –
1. Drinking coffee on an empty stomach: This can raise stomach acid, trigger reflux, nausea, and gastritis if repeated daily.
2. Adding sugar, creamers, or syrups to the coffee: The calories in these additions can lead to fatty liver and diabetes.
3. Drinking over 4 cups of coffee in a day: This mistake can cause “cortisol spikes, gut irritation, palpitations, and anxiety,” according to Dr Saurabh Sethi.
4. Having coffee late at night: This can delay sleep, impairing liver repair.
5. Drinking coffee to mask fatigue: If you’re choosing coffee over fixing your sleep cycle, then it can worsen the burnout, cause brain fog, and gut stress over time.
6. Adding artificial sweeteners to the drink: If you think zero-calorie artificial sweeteners are harmless, Dr Saurabh Sethi explains that some of them can actually disrupt your gut microbiome.
7. Light roast is not better than dark one: The doctor explained that dark roast is actually less acidic and may be better tolerated in reflux.
We hope this information was helpful to you all.
P.S. – This article is based on a social media post by a gastroenterologist.
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