Dark Chocolate With Tea Daily May Lower Blood Pressure As Well As Medication

Study Finds ^ | May 16, 2025 | Christian Heiss, University of Surrey

[Red Badger]

MORE CHOCOLATE!...........................

[TTFX]

What is the mechanism?

Chocolate has a lot of copper. Maybe copper is beneficial. If one has a lot of iron or retinol, they reduce copper.

[Fresh Wind]

Considering my consumption of dark chocolate (I prefer 90% cocoa) and tea, I will never die!

[ConservativeMind]

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[chajin]

I’m surprised that Leftist racists haven’t caught on to this.

When it comes to human races, non-racists follow the King method of judging not by the color of the skin but by the content of the character. (Whether there happens to be a correlation between color and character is a sociological issue, but it isn’t a pure correlation in any case.)

When it comes to chocolate, however, the darker the chocolate, the better it is for health, and the least healthy chocolate is white, which really isn’t chocolate at all, but cocoa butter, anymore than soybean oil is the same as a soybean. The only group that understands this is the women of Japan, who require men to give them dark chocolate on Valentine’s Day, but only return the favor with white “chocolate” on racist-named White Day, March 14.

[nikos1121]

Another stupid article.

Potassium. Add potassium to your diet folks. 2500mg. Your BP will drop

[marktwain]

75% dark chocolate is expensive stuff. Figure about $10 for 2 ounces a day.

[TTFX]

Buy cocoa powder and make chocolate milk.

[xone]

Try an ACV gummie, swallowed. Dropped 25 points on systolic.

[Ancesthntr]

“75% dark chocolate is expensive stuff. Figure about $10 for 2 ounces a day.”
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Simply not true. I get Bettergoods (a Walmart house brand) dark chocolate (90%) for $2.47 for 3.5 ounces. I have been buying it since I had a heart attack last summer, after having read an article similar to this. They have cocoa percentages starting at 55% and going up to 95%.

[Flaming Conservative]

As every woman knows, chocolate is medicine.

[TTFX]

Excess iron is stored in the liver, pancreas, heart, and can cause health problems. If a person has a lot of iron, blood ferritin is high and donating blood and bloodletting reduce it.

[marktwain]

Good to hear. I did a look online, and found the expensive stuff, it seems.

[marktwain]

I get Bettergoods (a Walmart house brand) dark chocolate (90%) for $2.47 for 3.5 ounces. I have been buying it since I had a heart attack last summer, after having read an article similar to this. They have cocoa percentages starting at 55% and going up to 95%.

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Thanks for the information. How do you consume it?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Hybiscus tea and high dose potassium also work well. That’s part of Mr.GG2s regimen.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You can choose the natural path in the article or consider flavanol supplements. I took CocoaVia supplements for a couple years about six years ago, but quit (maybe I should resume). I might have heard about CocoaVia here on FR.

Mars, Inc. (yes, the candy company) developed a proprietary Cocoapro™ process that preserves flavanols that are often destroyed in traditional chocolate or cocoa processing. The process is backed by over 20 years of research, with clinical studies (e.g., COSMOS) supporting the cardiovascular and cognitive benefits of cocoa flavanols.

Unlike eating dark chocolate, which requires consuming high calories (e.g., 700 calories for equivalent flavanols), CocoaVia provides a concentrated, low-calorie source of flavanols. More details are at CocoaVia.

You can see selected research papers at See the Science. (maybe they should drop that "science" angle!)

• 20+ Years of Scientific Research
• 150+ Published Scientific Papers
• 30+ Clinical Studies with Leading Research Institutions
• COSMOS - 21,000 Healthy Adults Studied Over 5 Years

Here is a link to the COSMOS trial.

The COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital – an affiliate of Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA) – and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, WA) is a clinical trial that randomized 21,442 men and women across the United States. The study has investigated whether taking daily cocoa extract supplements containing 500 mg/day cocoa flavanols or a common multivitamin reduces the risk for developing heart disease, stroke, cancer, and other important health outcomes.

Although results from previous studies have been promising, the health benefits of taking these supplements have not yet been proven. The only way to determine whether or not cocoa flavanol and multivitamin supplements help maintain health is by conducting a large-scale trial, such as COSMOS. The main trial and COSMOS-Mind ancillary study findings are now available and can be accessed at Study Findings.

Of course, Mars, Inc. (which has large cocoa plantations around the world) has a dog in this fight. They have sponsored a lot of research, but there's a lot of independent research, too.

The CocoaVia™ Cardio Health capsules contain 500 mg of cocoa flavanols per serving, a level that has been shown in numerous scientific studies to support heart, brain, and overall health. The CocoaVia™ Memory+ product is formulated to contain 750 mg, a level of cocoa flavanols clinically proven to improve memory. The memory products contain 135mg of (-)-epicatechin per serving (the active molecule in cocoa flavanol compounds). If you want both cognitive and cardiovascular performance, choose the memory products.

[Red Badger]

Aldi's has good dark chocolate bars fairly inexpensive!...............

[Red Badger]

What’s ACV?...............🤔

[dfwgator]

Apple Cider Vinegar.