Coffee is the most commonly consumed psychoactive drug in the world. It is a natural central nervous center stimulant. It also hits up the heart, muscles and blood pressure centers although some think the effects of caffeine wear off after long-term use and may not have much of an effect on these centers.

Americans spent $11 billion on coffee last year. That’s about $1,000 per worker per year. Whew, that’s a lot of coffee brewing. About $1.4 billion of that was organic coffee.

Fifty-four percent of Americans drink coffee every day. Coffee has many anti-oxidants and for some reason, those anti-oxidants are absorbed more readily through a coffee source. Anti-oxidants are either natural or man-made substances that delay or prevent cell damage.

“There is certainly much more good news than bad news, in terms of coffee and health,” says Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD, nutrition and epidemiology professor at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Cirrhosis and Coffee Drinking

A large-scale study revealed that drinking one cup of coffee a day, lowered one’s chances 20 percent of developing cirrhosis of the liver. Cirrhosis is an auto-immune disease caused by excessive alcohol use. This alcohol abuse could end in cancer or liver failure.

According to The Guardian, Arthur L Klatsky, the lead author of the study, "Consuming coffee seems to have some protective benefits against alcoholic cirrhosis, and the more coffee a person consumes the less risk they seem to have of being hospitalized or dying of alcoholic cirrhosis."

Coffee has also been linked to decreasing the chances of developing non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.