This is What Happens When You Drink Coffee on an Empty Stomach

5. Fibrocystic Breast Disease

While this one doesn’t necessarily relate to coffee on an empty stomach, it’s essential all the same. The Journal of the National Cancer Institute has reported a connection between caffeine consumption and fibrocystic breast disease (FBD).

If you drink between 31 and 250mg of caffeine every day, you had a 1.5-fold increase in the risk of getting the condition, or 2.3-fold if you drank over 500mg.

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