The study, released online in the April issue of the journal Neurology, featured 1,84,024 adults aged 35 to 70 who were followed for a median duration of 13.1 years. The study found that people who consumed a lot of coffee had a 37% lower chance of developing Parkinson’s disease than those who did not drink.
The researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands stated, “This study demonstrates that the neuroprotection of coffee on Parkinson’s disease is attributed to caffeine and its metabolites by detailed quantification of plasma caffeine and its metabolites years before diagnosis.”
Moreover, consuming caffeinated coffee reduced the chance of neurodegenerative illness by forty-three per cent. In any case, the researchers failed to find any association with decaffeinated coffee.
“Good news for coffee lovers. Caffeinated coffee consumption over a long term has the potential to lower the risk of Parkinson’s disease,” according to a post on X by Dr Sudhir Kumar, a neurologist at Hyderabad’s Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals.
He further explained, “Neuroprotective effect leading to lower risk of Parkinson’s Disease was attributed to caffeine and metabolites such as theophylline and paraxanthine.”
