I think that he is recommending that we read the study. He didn’t design the study, he’s just reporting on its results. I am grateful for that, especially since this particular one deals with heart issues and I had a heart attack about 14 months ago.
As an aside, I put a heaping teaspoon of organic cacao into my coffee every morning because I believe, as you do, that it has more flavenols than cocoa. I am pretty sure that this study use the Cocoa Via product because of easy availability and standardization; I wish that they had used cacao, but I am nonetheless going to continue using cacao myself. BTW, I use coffee from Life Extension that is processed in a way that preserves as much in the way of its (different than cacao) flavenols as possible, because I am an “all of the above” kind of guy when it comes to my heart health. I also convinced my cardiologist to prescribe colchicine, which reduces vascular inflammation (which is the cause of plaque, NOT cholesterol) and am taking a daily 81 mg aspirin. So I am hitting inflammation from multiple different angles.
According to ConsumerLab:
The cheapest and safest cocoa powder, delivering 200 mg of flavanols per 2.5 tablespoons (only 10 cents for that 2.5 tablespoons) is “Good & Gather [Target] Unsweetened Cocoa Powder - 100% Cocoa.”
The other option to get 200 mg of flavanols is to take about half a capsule of “CocoaVia™ Brain Health Memory+.” That amounts to about 30 cents.
As you can tell, it takes a lot of cocoa to get to the levels the study used. 200 is lower than what was given.
I also convinced my cardiologist to prescribe colchicine, which reduces vascular inflammation (which is the cause of plaque, NOT cholesterol) and am taking a daily 81 mg aspirin. So I am hitting inflammation from multiple different angles.
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are you taking crestor or are you off the statins.