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Coffee on an Empty Stomach: What Science Says Vs What Social Media Told You
I Felt Guilty About My Morning Coffee for Years. Then a Nutrition Scientist Called It a Myth
Coffee on an Empty Stomach: Science vs. Social Media Myths
Everyone online has a rule about your first cup. Here’s what a nutrition scientist actually does.
Every few months a new video shows up telling you the same thing. Don’t drink coffee on an empty stomach. Your gut will pay for it.
Dr. Federica Amati drinks hers before she’s eaten a single bite.
She’s a scientist at Imperial College London, the head nutritionist at Zoe, and the author of The Appetite Reset. If you went by the internet, you’d expect her to be up at 4 a.m., swallowing a fistful of supplements, then climbing into a cryotherapy chamber for half an hour. She laughed at that picture. If she’s awake at 4, she says, something has gone terribly wrong. One of her kids is ill.
Her real alarm clock is her children. She’s up around six, six-thirty, whenever they are. Anyone with small kids knows the schedule isn’t really yours anymore. She goes downstairs, drinks a big glass of…
