Wait, hold on.

Coffee is life, restarting the body ever morning and pushing it further into the late hours of the night...

And on top of all that, you're saying it's good for me!?

Who else out there is winning at life right now?

Researchers have known for quite some time that coffee has possessed key elements in increasing the longevity of life, but have never been able to exactly pinpoint just what in coffee aids in the process.

We've narrowed it down to the natural caffeine in coffee, which can also be found in tea and chocolate, to be the source of magic.

Caffeine is more commonly known for it's ability to provide a boost of energy for the body, but the magic doesn't just stop there.

As of this moment, they still don't know exactly what.

But, they may just be a little closer.

In a recently posted medical journal, Nature Medicine, lead author David Furman, Ph. D., from the Insitute of Immunity, Transplantation and Infection at Stanford University in California, and his colleagues claim that they may have started cracking the code.

Furman and his colleagues' studies revolved around observations of coffee intake, analyzing data from the Stanford-Ellison cohort, among them a group of healthy adults ranging from 20-30 years old, and another healthy group of individuals of 60 and older adults.

What they discovered was that caffeine seems to possess anti-inflammatory properties, aiding in lengthening lifespans.

The caffeine during the trials seemed to act as an activator amongst a cluster of genes that release 1L-1-beta, a circulating inflammatory protein.

That's right, ladies and gents, it's healthy!

Now, this doesn't mean that a latte has suddenly become the fountain of youth and you need to go all java-junkie and start a strict Starbucks diet.

It just means that for the average American out there who consumes, on average, about 1-5 cups of coffee per day, you might be receiving a few little perks on the side.

I'll drink a latte to that.

Source: Medical News Today. Why Might Coffee Drinkers Live Longer? Study Sheds Light. Honor Whiteman