Why Adding Coconut Oil To Your Coffee Can Give It A Healthy Boost

Many coffee drinkers are well aware that they can have "too much of a good thing," as Johns Hopkins Medicine put it. This means no more than four or five cups of coffee a day — or maybe even considering cutting out caffeine for good. Otherwise, side effects like a quickened heart rate, headache, insomnia, nausea, or the shakes may follow, reported the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. 

This is when coffee drinkers are more than happy to balance out the argument, pointing to the health benefits of drinking coffee — they're delighted to repeat those five words for emphasis. Cleveland Clinic noted coffee can reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, cancer, depression, liver disease, Parkinson's disease, and type 2 diabetes.

So just imagine if you take these benefits and combine them with the benefits of coconut oil. It's so versatile that you can place several jars throughout your home and use it to do everything from stir-fry vegetables to moisturize your skin. By ingesting it — say, by mixing some in that morning coffee — you can piggyback on some of the oil's equally versatile health benefits. Healthline explained the oil may boost your metabolism, calm inflammation, ease arthritis symptoms, help fight infections, increase good cholesterol levels, protect your liver, provide a quick jolt of energy, and more.