[ProtectOurFreedom]

Here's an earlier article from a couple months ago on Flavanols posted by ConservativeMind...

Cocoa flavanols contribute to faster oxygen uptake kinetics, improved blood flow

...and the original Medical Express link.

I bought a three month supply of CocoaVia after reading that August article but haven't noticed any changes.

[Red Badger]

I wonder if Cocoa Pebbles counts?..................

[refermech]

Reminds me I need to go out and resupply my chocolate chips. I like a hand full very day. Off to Costco!

[ConservativeMind]

I will say there were even MRI studies with big blood flow improvements (even six months after stopping supplementation) and N-back memory tests of people. The following is being used on the Cocoavia site, but would hold true for the same amount of flavanols from other supplements (but the Cocovia powder has no appreciable calories or heavy metals):

“After taking about 750 mg of cocoa flavanols daily for 8-12 weeks, the amount in CocoaVia™ Memory+, study participants experienced a 31% improvement in word recall and were able to complete a brain test an average of 21% faster.”

https://www.cocoavia.com/pages/see-the-science

You may not notice an improvement if you were already doing well, though, which would be good and could show you might benefit at a later time, but not now.

I know I posted, many years back, the MRI blood flow study, but it would take time to find. That is what sold my wife and I on it for us and her parents.