About Circular Health Coffee
The Path to Understanding CHC
Redefining Coffee, Redefining Food
The Path to Understanding CHC
The path to understanding Circular Health Coffee begins with exploring how coffee impacts human health, the bioactive compounds that drive those effects, and its role as a complex agricultural product. From there, the journey moves through processing, decaf methods, roasting for health, standards, food safety practices and finally brewin
The path to understanding Circular Health Coffee begins with exploring how coffee impacts human health, the bioactive compounds that drive those effects, and its role as a complex agricultural product. From there, the journey moves through processing, decaf methods, roasting for health, standards, food safety practices and finally brewing and coffee preparation that bring it all together in the cup.
The 9-stage CHC Cycle
Redefining Coffee, Redefining Food
The Path to Understanding CHC
The nine-stage Circular Health Coffee Cycle is a systems-based model that places the coffee drinker at its center, beginning with wellness motivations and health research, then moving through regenerative farming, equitable partnerships, and product optimization. It continues with transparency, personalized choices, learning and feedback
The nine-stage Circular Health Coffee Cycle is a systems-based model that places the coffee drinker at its center, beginning with wellness motivations and health research, then moving through regenerative farming, equitable partnerships, and product optimization. It continues with transparency, personalized choices, learning and feedback, and the development of evolving standards, creating a regenerative loop where every stage supports both human well-being and planetary health.
Redefining Coffee, Redefining Food
Redefining Coffee, Redefining Food
Redefining Coffee, Redefining Food
CHC is more than a new way to think about coffee; it is a vision for how food itself can be reimagined. By uniting science, farming, transparency, and wellness, CHC shows that what we grow and consume can nourish both people and the planet. The book and this website begin a conversation about coffee as a model for circular health foods, a
CHC is more than a new way to think about coffee; it is a vision for how food itself can be reimagined. By uniting science, farming, transparency, and wellness, CHC shows that what we grow and consume can nourish both people and the planet. The book and this website begin a conversation about coffee as a model for circular health foods, aligning with the food-as-medicine movement and pointing toward a future where every cup represents health, integrity, and hope. Our world and all its living things deserve nothing less.
See Coffee Differently: Journey to Circular Health Coffee
The Circular Upward Spiral of Developing CHC
The 9-Stage Cycle
CHC follows a systems-based approach, the Circular Health Coffee Cycle, a model made up of nine interconnected stages. At the center of this cycle is the coffee drinker, who both initiates and completes the loop by choosing coffee aligned with personal health goals and offering feedback that shapes future practices.
1. Wellness Motivation – The cycle begins with individual and collective motivations to improve well-being through everyday choices.
2. Health Research – CHC production is informed by evolving scientific evidence on coffee’s health effects.
3. Organic Regenerative Farming – Coffee must be grown in ways that heal the land and protect biodiversity.
4. Equitable Partnerships – Fair value and transparent relationships enable producers to sustain these practices.
5. Product Optimization – Roasters and producers collaborate to preserve and enhance health-supportive compounds.
6. Product Transparency – Lab testing and Certificates of Analysis empower consumers with verified information.
7. Personalized Choices – Coffee is selected and consumed with individual needs in mind, from decaf options to specific compounds.
8. Learning and Feedback – Producers and consumers share knowledge, closing the loop and driving continual improvement.
9. Standards Development – CHC relies on evolving, science-based standards grounded in inclusivity and transparency. Producers and consumers share knowledge, closing the loop and driving continual improvement. Research, field-tested practices, and shared values support each of these stages. Together, they define a regenerative model of production and consumption rooted in health, science, and accountability.
Food is like a language, an unbroken information stream that connects every cell in your body to an aspect of the natural world.
— Catherine Shanahan, Deep Nutrition