More good news about coffee & liver disease....

[copyman]

Check this out. Not sure if this one has been posted here before. This has to be the most exciting data I have seen about liver disease & coffee use. Specifically saying people with HCV will respond to TX much better if prior coffee drinkers.

http://hepatitiscresearchandnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2011/03/coffee-boosts-hep-c-treatment-response.html

[johnny679]

Thats good to hear that there is something nice you can enjoy without worrying , i like 3 coffees a day with 2 sugars a pop

[Bali05]

I read the same thing in a german liver magazine and what is also interesting is that there
was no difference between decaf or regular .

[can-do-man]

The authors said it was unlikely that coffee had a direct antiviral effect.

Rather, it was more likely that “coffee would have a facilitating effect on response to peginteferon and ribavirin by a mechanism yet to be understood,” they wrote.

Alternatively the association could also simply be due to chance, they said, adding further studies were needed.
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Oh well, drink it if you like it.      :)

[pedro007]

The only hippy / alternative, supplement my trial nurse spoke to me about, that could be advantageous in the HCV cure, was COFFEE and vitamin D.  I drink / drank 3 or 4 cups of fresh ground, dark roast, organic coffee every morning. I took 800 UI vitamin D with my cocktail of drugs after breakfast, and 800 with RBV, after dinner.   I have have been finished TX for one week now, after only 24 weeks.  Maybe that hippy stuff, was the straw, the extra boost, that broke the camels back.  Now that I'm finished with the SUTE"S, hopefully for good, I wonder if there is any hippy stuff that I can do / eat, to eliminate the continuing side affects and get back to normal?   Getting tired of eating ginger and ibuprofen.   Caio , Pedro

[willbb]

Copyman:  Thanks for that...Makes the one I am drinking right now taste just that much better. :)

Will

[Willy50]

Who needs good genes when you have French Roast?

I always intuitively *knew* this.  : )

Thanks,

Willy