Health
Is Decaf as healthy?
Most of the health benefits are the same across the caffeinated and decaf versions, with only a minor magnification of effects in some areas due to the ‘entourage effect’. So you’re still onto a winner with the decaf. The areas where decaf isn't as p
How will Exhale make me feel?
Rather than answer this ourselves here are what other customers feel after drinking Exhale (all verified Trust Pilot reviews):. “I’m so alert and stable for the entire day, compared to a normal coffee which spikes before shortly plummeting.Exhale are
Why is the coffee healthy?
Put simply: coffee comes from a fruit and contains over 1000 different compounds the most beneficial being polyphenols such as chlorogenic acid. Through over roasting and poor handling these compounds are often significantly reduced in other coffees.
What is it in your coffee that makes it healthy?
Science has proven coffee is seriously healthy and associated with a reduced risk of contracting some of the world’s nastiest diseases. But there are a lot of things that impact just how healthy coffee can be. Our process is designed to find a coffee
Can you live off coffee?
Yes. Well, not you specifically, but the coffee berry borer (Hypothenemushampei) lives off nothing but coffee!. How, you might ask? It turns out that like most other living creatures, the coffee berry borer has a microbiome in its gut. Some species o
Can't I get healthy benefit from all coffees?
Yes, you can, but multiple studies show the quantity of the healthiest compounds vary immensely from coffee to coffee. In 2014, one study tested 104 espressos from cafes in Scotland, Italy and Spain and found a 31-fold difference between the highest
Coffee makes me anxious or jittery, will exhale be any different?
It should... one study shows that polyphenols counteract the negative effects of caffeine, reducing anxiousness. So, a high polyphenol coffee like Exhale should reduce the jittery effects of caffeine. This has been confirmed by lots of our customers
Can't I get antioxidants from other food in my diet?
Yes, you totally can, but coffee is by far the biggest dietary source of them (taking serving size into account, i.e. you’re unlikely to eat 0.5kg of Turmeric with your breakfast). In fact, a 2004 Norwegian study showed that 66% of participants' TOTA
Will consuming so many antioxidants in coffee stop my body producing its own?
No, quite the contrary. It has been proven that coffee’s most abundant polyphenol, chlorogenic acid, supports your bodies own endogenous production of the ‘master antioxidant’ glutathione as well as being a powerful antioxidant itself.
Antioxidants have been poo poo'd by some as having no proven benefits haven't they?
Yes, there has been no conclusive evidence to show that antioxidant supplements can benefit your health. However, antioxidants in foods have been extensively shown in science to be beneficial to your health. Further evidence that eating a wholefood d
Isn't coffee just caffeine and water?
Coffee actually contains as many as 1,000 different compounds and caffeine is just one of them. In fact, caffeine only makes up around 1% of the total weight of the bean whereas the much researched phytonutrient, chlorogenic acid, can be over 7%.
What is Niacin? It sounds like something strange.
It’s a fancy name for vitamin B3 which is used by the body to turn food into energy. Exhale coffee has been tested to provide 20% of your RDA of it in just 2 cups meaning it’s one of your diet’s richest natural sources.
If chlorogenic acid starts in it' highest concentration in the green bean, shouldn't the healthiest coffee be the lightest?
No, that’s a reductionist view of coffee. The health benefits imparted by coffee are a sum of its parts. Some compounds, like melanoidins for example, are formed during the roasting process and they have anti-inflammatory effects and are beneficial f
Does roasting affect the health of coffee?
Massively. For example, one of the healthiest compounds in coffee, chlorogenic acid, decomposes during the roasting process and its concentration drops off a cliff around medium roast to less than 10% of the original amount in very dark roasts.
Does xenohormesis affect the concentration of polyphenols in coffee?
I’d love to debate this with someone so please drop me an email on [email protected] if you have an opinion! My assumption is it reacts the same as resveratrol in red wine but haven’t seen any research on this… yet. If you would like to read more
Is fresh coffee healthier?
Yes, definitely. One of coffee’s healthiest compounds, chlorogenic acid, degrades from the point of roasting, some say at a rate of c. 20% a month. Only buy coffee that you know has been freshly roasted. Aside from this, after a couple of months coff
Hasn't coffee been linked to a spike in cholesterol?
Yes, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing - the cholesterol debate is far more complicated than we used to think. If the spike was an issue we would have seen epidemiological evidence of negative effects. We actually see the opposite with coffee be
Does coffee break a fast and stop it's benefits?
Coffee has no calories in it so doesn’t break a fast. Interestingly, it could actually benefit it. A 2014 study showed coffee induces autophagy in mice which is the mechanism causing the main health benefits of fasting. They point to polyphenols in c
Can coffee benefit my DNA?
Yes! Regular coffee consumption has proven to have beneficial protective effects on human DNA integrity. Most recently a 2019 randomised controlled trial (the most rigorous of scientific studies) saw a 23% reduction in DNA damage. DNA damage is known
I just want the caffeine, can't I just take caffeine supplements?
You could, but your DNA doesn’t like it. Telomeres are the protective ends of our DNA (sort of like the plastic aglets on shoelaces) and as you age they shorten until eventually they become so short the cells they are within stop replicating and die.