I French press for a long time, back when I’d drink four or five cups a day. Believe it or not I ended up with heartburn. I actually took to putting filters (bamboo) in between the screen and the metal spokes to filter my French press, and it actually helped a bit. And apparently French press coffee is super high in cholesterol, and running it through a paper filter can reduce that.
I do drip now though. And it’s fine. I really just drink coffee to wake up in the morning. I put the coffee in, it fills the pot, I pour the pot in my cup and I drink it. They’re both easy, and they’re certainly easier than some of the silly methods I see nowadays.
I’m aware of this myself, and it isn’t the cholesterol in the coffee, but a chemical in the coffee that lowers your liver’s ability to deal with cholesterol from other sources.
If you drink 1-3 cups at most a day and you’re relatively healthy or you never see high cholesterol on lab results then it’s fairly moot, apparently.
I say apparently because I’m a mechanic, not a coffee… doctor? The chemicals I learned about five minutes ago are diterpenes: cafestol and kahweol.
I French press for a long time, back when I’d drink four or five cups a day. Believe it or not I ended up with heartburn. I actually took to putting filters (bamboo) in between the screen and the metal spokes to filter my French press, and it actually helped a bit. And apparently French press coffee is super high in cholesterol, and running it through a paper filter can reduce that.
I do drip now though. And it’s fine. I really just drink coffee to wake up in the morning. I put the coffee in, it fills the pot, I pour the pot in my cup and I drink it. They’re both easy, and they’re certainly easier than some of the silly methods I see nowadays.
I’m aware of this myself, and it isn’t the cholesterol in the coffee, but a chemical in the coffee that lowers your liver’s ability to deal with cholesterol from other sources.
If you drink 1-3 cups at most a day and you’re relatively healthy or you never see high cholesterol on lab results then it’s fairly moot, apparently.
I say apparently because I’m a mechanic, not a coffee… doctor? The chemicals I learned about five minutes ago are diterpenes: cafestol and kahweol.
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