@Coloma is right, there have been pro and con studies. I’m a huge coffee drinker, so I’m interested in that. There have been studies that even suggest that it may delay and slow down Alzheimer’s symptoms. But, unless you actually study the protocols and results and the rationalization of the results of these trials, and understand what you’re reading, and can judge whether or not they were conducted properly, what you read in the newspapers or online written by journalists is often bullshit.
I have Alzheimers, organic brain disease, running in the maternal side of my family. My mother’s mother spent the last thirty years of her life basically staring at a wall—starting when she was about my age.
I’d really to hear Rarebear’s take on this subject.