Originally Posted by berny
Good move. We have two guys in our club who have been fitted with pacemakers, one doesn't race any more and one does. Both have been heavy coffee drinkers. One still indulges, the one who doesn't race.
I think you gotta separate correlation from causation.
First, look at the reason for their massive consumption. Although most on this thread enjoy it, other heavy coffee drinkers might be high-stress people who are constantly sleep deprived either from long hours working or long hours worrying, and the fact they drink that much coffee might indicate some OTHER factor which led to the heart problems, etc.
And to those people who experience heart palpatations -- it could be you are stressed out and have a touch of anxiety. You lose sleep from the anxiety and drink coffee to stay awake. It's the stress, not the coffee doing it.
In other words, just because people with health probs drank lots of coffee does not mean the coffee caused it.