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What’s the Optimal Amount of Coffee for Your Health?

The ideal number of cups, how late in the day you can drink them, and other coffee-related health topics.

Markham Heid
THE NUANCE
Published in
4 min readMar 2
Photo by Mike Kenneally on Unsplash

The average American adult ingests 173 mg of caffeine per day, which is roughly the amount in two 8-oz. cups of coffee. That’s according to a 2016 study from…

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Markham Heid
THE NUANCE

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.