A new study says yes.
Drinking coffee has repeatedly been linked with better heart health and prolonged life. But the benefits of coffee consumption could depend on when you drink it, new research has found.
Limiting coffee intake to the morning, it turns out, may be best and that seems to be regardless of the amount consumed and other potentially influential factors, according to the study published in the European Heart Journal.
The researchers identified two patterns of timing of consumption that morning and all day. Compared with people who weren't coffee drinkers, having coffee only in the morning was assotiated with a 16% lower risk of premature death from any cause and a 31% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. Those who tended to drink coffee all day didn't have a reduction in risk. These findings remained even after the authors took into account confounders such as sleep hours, age, race, ethnicity, sex, family income, education, physical activity levels, a dietary score and health conditions such as diabetes, hypertention and high cholesterol.
This is the first study testing coffee drinking timing patterns and health outcomes and for me, we should be thinking about this in the future.
UPDATED: 23.01.2025
