Good News for Coffee Lovers: Even Decaf Is Good For Your…

Good News for Coffee Lovers: Even Decaf Is Good For Your Brain By Talmedora Editorial | April 30, 2026 If you've ever switched to decaf and wondered whether you were giving up all the good stuff, science just handed you some very welcome news. It Was Never Just About the Caffeine For years, coffee's benefits were largely credited to one ingredient: caffeine. Alertness, focus, that morning kick, all caffeine's doing, right? Not so fast. A new study suggests that regularly drinking four cups of coffee a day can have a positive impact on mood and stress levels and most of those mood and gut changes occurred with both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee. The researchers put it plainly. "Coffee is more than just caffeine," said study author John Cryan, PhD, Principal Investigator at APC Microbiome Ireland. The Study: How It Worked The research, led by scientists at University College Cork, is one of the first controlled human studies to m