Caffeine in Coffee as a Radiation Shield?
I’m going to quote an old article that I found at News in Science written way back in June of 1999. You may click on the name and find the original story if you’d like. I just wanted to credit the source.
Apparently, a study was done by injecting 471 mice with caffeine and then exposing them to high doses of radiation. (they received 80 milligrams of caffeine). Some 25 days later, 70% of the mice were still alive.
On the other hand, 196 mice that received the same amount of radiation with out the caffeine injection all died.
They state that caffeine reacts with hydroxyl radicals produced by the radiation and it could stop the radicals from damaging cells and prevent body functions from failing.
I found this very interesting and have been searching for further studies in this nature. If you spot any, let me know….. or post it in the comment section. Isn’t this neat?
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