It may be in your best interest to stop by your local café after having that week long bender. A study in the June 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine shows that drinking coffee may significantly reduce your chance of getting the liver disease cirrhosis.Cirrhosis basically turns your liver into scar tissue, making it impossible to filter toxins out of the body. Other factors are also in play in developing the disease. Hepatitis C, smoking, and mixing other toxins with alcohol can speed up the process.

So the guys at Kaiser Medical Care Program, in Oakland ,CA analyzed data from 125,580 subjects. They ran blood test for the enzyme that shows liver damage. They found that people who drank coffee and alcohol had a lower amount of the enzyme than people who just drank. The amount of the enzyme in heavy drinkers that drank coffee to those who didn't was even greater. They also did the study with tea, and found that it was not related to the lower risk.

This story struck a chord with me. I am a bartender at the 500 club here in San Francisco, and if there is any kind of preventative thing you can do to combat liver disease I want to promote it. Stop by star bucks after a hard night at the 5, Your liver will love you for it.