Is Coffee Good For You?

📚 Pre-order my book to get an exclusive ticket to The Feel-Good Productivity Annual Planning Workshop! Website: https://www.feelgoodproductivity.com/?utm_campaign=bonus&utm_source=youtube_long&utm_medium=video_description&utm_content=bulkvidsbefore2021 Amazon: https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/bulkvidsbefore2021 To improve your thinking and learning skills with active recall, visit https://brilliant.org/ali and sign up for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription :) 🚀 Lifestyle Business Academy: Our MBA alternative to build a 6-figure online business → https://lifestylebusiness.com/academy?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=ali_yt&utm_term=desc-sweep-2026-07&utm_content=C0syvUws1ps 🧠 Superfocus: Our Ultimate Productivity System for People with More Ambition than Time → https://superfocus.me/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=ali_yt&utm_term=desc-sweep-2026-07&utm_content=C0syvUws1ps MY OTHER PRODUCTS 🦄 My Productivity Course: LifeOS → https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifeos/ytd 🤑 Grow / Monetise your YouTube Channel → https://go.aliabdaal.com/PTYA/yt 👻 Voicepal: AI Writing App (iOS/Android) - Download for Free → https://go.aliabdaal.com/voicepal/ytd MY BOOK 📕 My New York Times bestselling book Feel-Good Productivity (2,000+ 5-star reviews) → https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/amazon/yt CONNECT WITH ME 💌 Join LifeNotes, my weekly email where I share what I'm reading & learning: https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes/yt 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/aliabdaal 📱 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aliabdaal 👨‍💻 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-abdaal/ 🐥 X/Twitter: https://x.com/aliabdaal 🌍 My website / blog: https://www.aliabdaal.com/ In this first episode of Journal Club we're taking a look at the hype behind coffee and whether it's actually good for us. TIMESTAMPS 00:21 - What does coffee do? 00:49 - Coffee enhances mental performance (alertness + vigilance) 02:39 - Coffee improves memory + recall 04:28 - Coffee improves mood 05:31 - Coffee to get out of a slump 07:11 - Coffee enhances physical performance 08:27 - Coffee reduces the perception of fatigue 08:55 - Coffee improves recovery from exercise 10:26 - Long term effects of coffee 10:43 - Coffee contains useful micronutrients 11:10 - Coffee is negatively correlated with lots of long-term health problems including diabetes, heart disease and cancer 15:08 - Negative effects of coffee Studies referenced in the video: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3114783 https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2903/j.efsa.2011.2054 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23241646 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19708406 https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3623 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296361/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26518745 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/723503 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15657469 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20182023 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20182054 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29590460 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29276945 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21920945 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26899133 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(16)30239-X/fulltext PS: I donate 10% of my income to charity every year. Would you like to join me? Learn more about the 10% Pledge: https://aliabdaal.com/giving-what-we-can/