• This study verified moderate coffee consumption, including decaffeination, can provide a new guideline for the prevention of SARS-CoV-2. Based on the results, we also suggest a coffee-drinking plan for people to prevent infection in the post-COVID-19 era.

    Aw heck yes, petition to name this the Janeway diet!

  • D3FNC [any]
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    1710 months ago

    Nicotine and amphetamines had the same effect based on studies done during the pandemic, accounting for smoking’s oddly protective effect that was observed initially, counterintuitively.

    As someone with ADHD that dips and drinks coffee, none of that stopped me from getting covid repeatedly while working in a hospital.

    • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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      Still getting COVID is consistent with the results of this study. Coffee helps, but only by 10%.

      Based on the previous report analysis [26], drinking one or more cups of coffee per day was related to approximately 10% lower risk of COVID-19 compared to no coffee in the UK Biobank (UKB)

  • Venus [she/her]
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    1110 months ago

    Is this actually true in the way that is intuitive or is it true in the same sense that if you have a petri dish with cancerous cells in it you can kill them with a handgun

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      710 months ago

      According to the study at least, they claim to have seen a statistically significant difference in human trials with moderate coffee consumption. Whether the trials were well done is another question of course. :)

    • @online@lemmy.ml
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      510 months ago

      If you use Firefox you can turn on the thing that they just enabled in Germany by going to about:config and setting these options:

      • cookiebanners.service.mode 2
      • cookiebanners.service.mode.privateBrowsing 2

      They are both set to ‘0’ right now.

      They are testing this setting, so if something goes wrong then change it back.

      More information here: https://community.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/firefox-cookie-banner-handling/

      Caveat: I just learned this on Lemmy in some other thread I can’t find again.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      310 months ago

      Is that true? I don’t do anything but I’d see about this if it kept my lungs from turning into beef jerky

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        310 months ago

        It won’t stop an infection from going bad but it can mildly reduce risk of infection iirc

  • @Chais@sh.itjust.works
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    510 months ago

    So between daily coffee and weekly cannabis consumption I should be well protected. Not to mention the vaccination. So why did I catch that shit last year??

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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    410 months ago

    I’m only half joking when I credit caffeine and cannabis for helping me dodge covid all this time (that I know of, I might’ve had an asymptomatic case but every time I’ve gotten tested it’s been negative). Of course masking and living like a hermit even before covid kicked off definitely helps, but I’ll take the excuse to indulge in my favourite vices

    • The£0b°t°m¡§t
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      210 months ago

      I heard beer helps a lot too!

      Where I heard you ask? Well I red it somewhere… I’m sure it was a reliable source…

  • anonochronomus [comrade/them, she/her]
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    410 months ago

    I was at an inpatient medical facility last year and they had a doctor come in specifically to give an hour long lecture about how smoking cigarettes prevents covid. It was the most surreal thing I’ve ever experienced and I have no idea where they found that Marlboro man ass doctor.