2024-03-14 08:09:57
BeethovenI couldn’t start the day without café. It is said that he had counted even the grains that he needed for a good cup. The Austrian musician tells it Anton Schindler, the great biographer of Beethoven, in his Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven (1988). The genius developed a surprising ability to prepare the morning coffee. Their key was to grind 60 grains (approximately 8 grams of ground coffee) and then filter it into a glass coffee pot that he had designed himself. The love for coffee is not exclusive to the composer of the Ninth. It has also been the favorite drink of great geniuses as Juan Sebastian Bach, Voltaire -it is said that he drank about 40 or 50 cups a day-, Kierkegaard -had more than 50 different cups to enjoy it- or Franklin -a regular at the big cafes in London-. Creative elixir for them, the most recent research nominates the coffee as the new elixir of longevity. And not only. They also demonstrate their role in our well-being and happiness.
Why Beethoven or Balzac could not live without café
The American writer tells Mason Curreyauthor of Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work, that “this should come as no surprise. Caffeine is a strange drug with powerful healthy effects– Helps you concentrate and pay attention, prevents drowsiness, and speeds up the frequency of updating new ideas, with only minimal inconvenience. And the ritual of preparing coffee serves as a gateway to creative mood“. As he himself explains, Balzac wrote: “The café slips into the stomach and launches all mental processes. Ideas advance in a route column like battalions of the Grande Armée. Memories arise in double, carrying the banners that will lead the troops into battle. The light cavalry deploys at a gallop. The artillery of logic thunders along with its supply wagons and shells. Brilliant notions join the combat as snipers. The characters put on their suits, the paper is covered in ink, the battle has begun and ends with an outpouring of black liquid like a real battlefield enveloped in swaths of black smoke from spent gunpowder. If it weren’t for coffee, you couldn’t write, that is, you couldn’t live.“.
“I think that A good cup of coffee makes you happy and, if you drink it with a friend, it will make you happier. I found a sign at a coffee shop near where I live in Boston that said coffee is the basis of consciousness. I think coffee is the most amazing thing we can do to celebrate life, cultivate friendships, be more creative, Enjoy life“explains the doctor Sanjiv Chopra, eminent professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. In addition to being the world’s leading experts on happiness and longevity, Café elíxir magica (Larousse, 2023) has recently been published in Spain.
Besides, coffee is a new elixir of longevity. As Sanjiv Chopra explains, his health benefits are immense and, for the most part, they are not sufficiently known. It has been discovered that coffee drinkers have a lower riskfrom suffering seven of the cancers common, liver cirrhosis, type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, etc. To the prevent diseases, people who regularly drink coffee live longer. As he explains in his book Café elíxir magic, research shows that telomere length (telomere length is considered a key “aging biomarker” at the molecular level) is greater in people who exercise, meditate, follow the Mediterranean diet, and drink coffee. “And the most surprising thing: It’s not because of the caffeine.. Caffeine intake is linked to shorter telomeres, however, Coffee intake linked to longer telomeres. That is to say, coffee has thousands of components (and not exactly caffeine) that make it very beneficial to health. Would Beethoven know?
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