• Butterphinger@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    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.

    Dyor