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The benefits of coffee on the liver were first recognized in people suffering from liver cirrhosis, which is a disease that mostly develops as a result of alcoholic liver damage. Studies by Klatsky et al. as well as others recognized a correlation between coffee intake and decrease in elevated liver enzymes, and overall hospitalizations and mortality of people with liver cirrhosis. It appeared that, for alcoholic liver disease, coffee could make a major difference in how fast the disease progressed and could even work to reduce damage. Most people are aware that alcohol consumption is a major risk factor for...

No Need for a Fancy Chemex...Specialty Coffee Once Only Offered as Whole Bean is Now Available in Single Serve Pods! If you are one of the 30% of Americans who use Keurig coffee makers every day, get ready to have a new world of vibrant health and good taste opened up to you. Until now, Purity Coffee--the only coffee on the market made purely with health in mind--has been exclusively for people who are happy grinding their own beans. Our toxin-free, antioxidant rich super-coffee had previously only been available in bags of fresh, whole bean coffee. Making coffee from whole...

It has taken us over a year to finally release KUPS coffee pods for Purity Coffee. Our goal was to provide a coffee that was good for our customers’ health without also polluting the environment, so we went in search of the holy grail: a biodegradable KUP. Unfortunately, while they exist they are porous by design and let the air into the ground coffee - causing it to stale immediately. That matters greatly to us because stale coffee has fewer antioxidants, and providing you with fresh, antioxidant-rich coffee is what we have worked tirelessly to do. A loaf of bread...

Among the most unwelcome effects of aging is cognitive decline, and there are few things scarier than dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease. Dementia starts in old age or later middle age and is characterized by memory loss over time, confusion, personality and mood changes and impaired thinking and even physical function. Of people who develop dementia, 60–65% of them have Alzheimer’s Disease, affecting about 26 million people all over the world. The disease is characterized by the death of brain cells, neurofibrillary tangles, and the build up of a plaque called beta amyloid in a patient’s brain. Because of how it...