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Stephen Safe

Stephen Safe

Professor of veterinary physiology and pharmacology, Texas A&M University

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"If you damage almost any tissue, NR4A1 responds to bring that damage down."

"The polyhydroxy and polyphenolic compounds are much more active" than caffeine in the lab models.

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Scientists find a cellular target for coffee's link to healthy aging

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Corresponding author of the NR4A1 coffee study

For decades, studies have linked coffee drinkers to lower rates of several age-related diseases. Nobody could say why. A Texas A&M lab now names a plausible reason: coffee compounds latch onto a cell receptor called NR4A1.

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