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Caffeine and the CYP1A2 gene

Posted by Peter on February 5, 2007
Posted in: Health. Tagged: diet, genetics.

I recently took a simple genetic test to determine whether I have genes for fast or slow caffeine metabolism. The result says that I’m a fast metabolizer, which indicates that caffeine use reduces my risk of heart attacks rather than increasing it.
This kind of testing is just becoming affordable, and it seems like many more tests of this nature should become common soon.

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