Dr. Carl “Chip” Lavie has been a cardiologist at the John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans since 1989, specializing in preventive cardiology, obesity management, cardiac rehabilitation, exercise physiology, and advanced cardiac imaging. He has been an active researcher with more than 1,900 medical articles.
Dr. Lavie published his first paper on the effects of drinking coffee 15 years ago, at a time when public perception was that caffeine and coffee were bad for you.
Is that how you first became interested in the health effects related to coffee consumption?…