Correlations

11/05/2025

A Dutch study has found a relationship between older adults who drank lots of coffee daily and a lower risk of frailty. The more coffee, the better. Drink it every waking minute and you’ll live forever.

There was no placebo in place; that is, decaf wasn’t used because it ain’t fooling anyone.

Although this was a Dutch study, and it’s appalling what they call “coffee”. Usually it’s weak drip filtered coffee made in the morning and kept warmish in a thermos flask for consumption during the day. A day’s worth of that shit doesn’t equal even one espresso.

If there was an official standard in place in the US and the Netherlands, you’d be able to call a beverage “coffee” so long as there was coffee beans in the room at the time it was prepared.

Back to the new results: frailty is a medical term for the gradual loss of strength, endurance, and physiological function. It’s usually defined by symptoms like weakness, slow walking, low activity, exhaustion, and unintentional weight loss.

I don’t think it’s the coffee providing the benefit though. People who drink mucho coffee, especially espresso, are more socially active, better educated, healthier, better looking, more sexually active, smarter, eat a balanced diet, exercise regularly, and have higher income and better access to healthcare.