MORE CHOCOLATE!...........................
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.
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.
Another stupid article.
Potassium. Add potassium to your diet folks. 2500mg. Your BP will drop
75% dark chocolate is expensive stuff. Figure about $10 for 2 ounces a day.
Try an ACV gummie, swallowed. Dropped 25 points on systolic.
As every woman knows, chocolate is medicine.
Hybiscus tea and high dose potassium also work well. That’s part of Mr.GG2s regimen.
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!)
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.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.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.
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.
Two things at the top of the list to avoid for those at risk for kidney stones.
This is good - and I’m going to show it to my doctor.
I’ve been trying to get off the BP medication for a long time - makes me tired and lethargic and I hate it.
Tea + Chocolate would be a great breakfast!!
Dark chocolate is high in oxalates. So enjoy your chocolate and enjoy your kidney stones.
I’m going to try to get a grant for $500,000 to study the effects on high blood pressure of heart stoppage.