<p>In a collaborative study at Creighton University in Nebraska and the University of Miami, Florida, researchers showed that caffeine may interfere with vitamin D absorption. The results, published in the "Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology," demonstrated that the higher the level of caffeine, the more it interfered with vitamin D absorption. The study suggested that caffeine did this by reducing the expression of vitamin D receptors on osteoblasts in the body -- the cells responsible for producing bone.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.direct-ms.org/pdf/VitDGenScience/Caffeine%20Vit%20D%20receptor%2007.pdf">http://www.direct-ms.org/pdf/VitDGenScience/Caffeine%20Vit%20D%20receptor%2007.pdf</a></p>

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<p>Is it true that if you drink coffee with food, then the coffee would prevent the body absorbing the nutrients contained in the food? </p>

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Is coffee blocking the body from absorbing nutrients?
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# Is coffee blocking the body from absorbing nutrients?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-02-23)

Is it true that if you drink coffee with food, then the coffee would prevent the body absorbing the nutrients contained in the food?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2016-02-23. Score: 6 | Accepted answer

In a collaborative study at Creighton University in Nebraska and the University of Miami, Florida, researchers showed that caffeine may interfere with vitamin D absorption. The results, published in the "Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology," demonstrated that the higher the level of caffeine, the more it interfered with vitamin D absorption. The study suggested that caffeine did this by reducing the expression of vitamin D receptors on osteoblasts in the body -- the cells responsible for producing bone.

<http://www.direct-ms.org/pdf/VitDGenScience/Caffeine%20Vit%20D%20receptor%2007.pdf>


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