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The article says you need to drink 4 or 5 cups of coffee a day or more for it to have a preventative effect. I was doing that anyway and it was tearing my insides out. So I had to reduce to a cup a day. Now I feel great. I guess I'll have to find a better way to prevent Alzheimer's.

I should be in good shape then. I’ve been drinking coffee since I was 9 years old and currently drink a pot in the morning and sometimes a cup or so after dinner at night.

I took NSAID’s for several years as I had early on onset rheumatoid arthritis. It ruined my stomach. Here’s how I’ve learned to deal with it and so far is working great. After I’m done drinking my coffee, or if I’ve eaten something spicy, I pour a 9 or 12 oz. bottle of ice cold water on it. Just a glass of room temperature water doesn’t do it. It has to be ice water.

Not only that it prevents the little shakey racy in my chest and wow does it clear up the thinking processes.

Also, I’m starting to think, but haven’t discussed the possibility with my doctor yet, that drinking ice water helps somehow with the inflamation, maybe by keeping the soft tissue better lubricated. I’ve been experiencing less of the aggravating pain in my hands.

I’m starting to think ice water is the elixir of life.

Sorry, didn’t mean to go so hypocondrial on you, lol But I think it does help.

The article says you need to drink 4 or 5 cups of coffee a day or more for it to have a preventative effect. I was doing that anyway and it was tearing my insides out. So I had to reduce to a cup a day. Now I feel great. I guess I'll have to find a better way to prevent Alzheimer's.

It may be the type of coffee you were using, or some other factor such as overall body hydration.

Normally, I can drink coffee up to a certain limit beyond which I get a queasy, jumpy feeling. Where we lived for a few years down in Louisiana, there was this guy who ran a coffee shop and I could drink his coffee as strong as he could make it yet never felt queazy, or jumpy.

He was a real purist who carefully selected his beans and roasted what he would need for the day each morning. I always liked to get his belgian mocha which he made by melting bars of belgian chocolate.

If I didn't get much sleep the previous night, or if we were about to get in the car to drive up to Ohio to visit family, I'd order the belgian mocha with a double shot of espresso. It would keep me going all day in a very alert state without the queazy, jumpy feeling I normally get when drinking large quantities of coffee in order to combat fatigue.

I've often wondered what it was about it that kept me from feeling queazy and jumpy? Was it the bean variety, the fresh roast, or was there something about the chocolate? Perhaps it was a little of each.