Regular coffee drinkers also have lower blood pressure measurements, new research shows.
Drinking at least three cups of coffee each day may help maintain low blood pressure readings, but even people who consume less than three cups per day can see blood pressure benefits.
Though the caffeine content in coffee has been shown to increase blood pressure, other coffee components, like antioxidants, may help to lower blood pressure.
These benefits were seen despite coffee’s caffeine content—which makes experts believe that any blood pressure-lowering effects coffee has likely come from antioxidants found in the beverage.
The antioxidant substances included in coffee (flavonoids, such as quercetin, caffeic acid, and chlorogenic acid, but also tannins) could exert an anti-inflammatory effect on the inner wall of the artery, exerting a kind of anti-aging effect on the vessel.”
