Don't overdo it, though:
Coffee has in the past been shown to reduce the risk of depression in women, and it also stimulates the central nervous system.
This was the first effort to observe the link between caffeine and incidents of suicide, of which there were 277 among the participants.
Despite the results, researchers advised against people drastically changing their drinking habits in order to self-medicate.
They observed throughout that most people naturally adapt their use of coffee to levels that feel right for them, and added that while the sample size of those who drank large quantities (six cups of more) was too small to make for significant findings, a major Finnish study showed a higher risk of suicide among people drinking eight or nine cups per day.
“Overall, our results suggest that there is little further benefit for consumption above 2-3 cups/day or 400 mg of caffeine/day,” the authors wrote.
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