Coffee Lover Gene

If you know me or my husband, you probably know we have this gene. Researchers have analyzed genetic data from 120,000 coffee drinkers of European and African-American ancestry and they have found not one, but eight places on the human genome linked to coffee drinking. In the past only two locations had been identified as links so this new data gives more credence to the idea that there is a coffee lover gene, that and further evidence that a hit of caffeine is what motivates regular coffee consumption. Drinking coffee is linked to a couple of things that make drinking coffee favorable in my opinion, lower risk of type 2 diabetes, liver disease, and Parkinson's disease. The truth is I just really like coffee so much that I never go a day without it. And then there are two more newly identified genes involved in how the body processes caffeine, the POR and ABCG2. These encode proteins involved in caffeine metabolism. For our children that don’t love coffee (and there are a couple of them too) they definitely have an affinity for caffeine. That may be a genetic predisposition we’ve passed on to them since the love of coffee and its caffeine and the love of caffeine (however you get it) are closely linked. Sorry to cut this short but that’s it, I need to end this post here and go grab a cup of coffee J