This is old news.
There are two compounds in coffee oils that are anti-inflammatory in the brain.
They also raise cholesterol.
But they don’t raise oxidized cholesterol, and they don’t raise inflammation. Cholesterol is necessary for making every one of your sex hormones. It is not the cause of heart disease.
If you want to feel the full power of what coffee can do for you, use a French press or an espresso machine. That will allow the precious coffee oils that reduce inflammation in your brain to be present. A paper filter removes them.
At this point, whenever a headline says that some thing is bad because it raises cholesterol, you can pretty much assume it is based on false assumptions.
Things that raise cholesterol can be good or bad for you, but it won’t be because of the cholesterol.
Unless you are suffering from familial hypercholesterolemia, I can’t imagine any benefit from giving up espresso for flat, low body paper filter coffee.
