Protect your Heart, Eat Chocolate every Day
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Good information. Thanks! Is it known if an element within the chocolate counters the negative heart and effects of saturated fat within solid cacao mass?
So for the last year or so, I have been including a scoop of raw organic cacao powder (non-alkalized) for it's purported health benefits in my afternoon smoothie, one thing I was not taking into consideration is how high the oxalates are in cacao, to make matters even worse, I was consuming nuts, almond milk, beet root and curcumin, all high in oxalates.
it was only after going on a road trip and eating "regular food" I experienced an oxalate dump, putting my kidneys out of whack. (never suffered from any problem before hand). the point here is, that many of the so called "superfoods" can be very high in oxalates. so moderation is key.
I take 1 tea spoon of raw organic cocoa in my mouth in the morning and in the evening.
Sir…? I would greatly like your take on John Bohannon (2015 CBS News - UA-cam) and his take on the subject. I am blind sir so your help would be greatly appreciated.
search UA-cam for “all about the chocolate diet hoax” CBS News. And it’s not just about chocolate but more about the process of surfacing actionable information from studies-chocolate is just a coincidence in this case
What is the recommended dose?
For those who drink coffe, just mix a table spoon of raw cacao powder into your coffe.
Do you know which brand has the least lead and cadmium?
Even coffee alone provides heart benefits.
@@albeit1I recall Dr. William Li doing a piece on how to navigate chocolate/cacao and heavy metals and where the best regions are to source it from.
Navitas naturals cacao powder is low in every metals. They started sourcing their cacao from a different part of the world years ago after news hit on the metal contamination in cacao. So they’ve had responded to that and have been very good about it. Plus they have some of the best tasting cacao powder IMO.
You want me to eat chocolate? Well, okay. If I have to.
Arm twist!
Such suffering. Perverse.
Unsweetened dark chocolate (you can sweeten it with allulose)
Chocolate not Chocolate candy
Brings back flashbacks when I was a kid of sitting at the dinner table for hours on end. My parents wouldn’t let me leave until I finished my daily serving of chocolate.
I’m still in therapy to this day over this trauma.
Hershey's isn't chocolate
It's sweetened brown lard
No it’s puke judging from the taste
Lard is generous. Sweetened seed oils 🤢
Apparently Lindt and Lily’s has roughly 4x lead and cadmium comparing to Ghirardelli (86% cacao) You’re welcome!
Ghiradelli from west africa which has the lowest cadmium soil levels. Don't buy Peru chocolate.
How did you find this information?
@@callmeishmael3031 Might have been consumer labs for the numbers.
The "undutched" chocolate you reference is non-alkalized chocolate. Alkalized chocolate is less bitter and is used in milk chocolate. If you are looking to buy the beneficial chococlate, vendors such as Amazon do not use the term "undutched" so you should look for "non-alkalized" cocoa powder. Studies I've seen regarding the risk of heavy metal--namely lead--in cocoa have shown that this is not naturally occurring; rather, cocoa beans dried next to roads accumulate lead from vehicle exhaust.
Interesting and useful info, thank you. Just one thing, I remember when people were advised about not eating vegetables grown near busy roads; but my understanding is that leaded fuel, which was used for used for cracking/high octane, has been mostly phased out by now and most road traffic everywhere is burning unleaded. Still a cocktail of nasty emissions but it may be that the lead in cocoa originates from other sources (agricultural chemicals or something in the drying and milling perhaps ?)
I tried alkalized cacao vs. non-alkalized & found the non-alk'ed let me sleep better. I'm a chocoholic from way back, but mostly now fair trade organic for the very least, peace of mind.
@@B_Ruphe According to reports there is also a lot of lead in the dust surrounding areas where the beans are fermented, dried and processed.
Leaded gas is phased out. But the remnants of it are still in the soil and I believe that’s how it gets into the food supply.
It's still beneficial if it has been alkalised.
I really like 70% cocoa or a piece of 80% chocolate with sweetened coffee, but the prices are rising
Fun fact: The market price per ton of raw cocoa has quadrupled since 2023
For chocolate I prefer 80%+, my two favorites are an 86%, and an 80% without added sugar(stevia/maltitol sweetened). For cocoa powder I like mixing a bit of organic cocoa powder with high fat cream.
It's all a "cheat day" thing now though, as I've gone carnivore.
I guess I should have invested.
Prices arent just rising, resources have been depleted creating an extreme limitation on what can even be grown.
Current chocolate is being made from the reserves and more than 80% of the warehouses and production have been shut down.
@@Holy.HannaHwhy is it getting this bad?
@@LiveAndLaughs The plants aren't producing nearly as many beans, so harvests are way down.
This breaks down the entire supply chain.
Chocolate isnt made from raw cocoa, the beans are first processed into butter, alcohol, etc..
Since the bean supply is down, the prices on those beans are high.
Processors can't afford them which nullifies certain aspects of their contracts and the suppliers then sell to whoever is willing to pay the price.
In the meantime there has been at least one study on why the plants themselves are only producing about half as many beans as they used to, which(if I remember correctly) indicated multiple different issues.
Anywhere from weather/climate related events such as el nino/la nina to local land management practices, etc.
You can probably search African Cocoa Bean Crisis 2023/2024 and find a lot more info.
According to Consumer Reports, Navitas Organics and Ghirardelli are the two brands of cocoa powder lowest in heavy metals. They were tested for lead and cadmium. Africa seems to be a better source for cacao than South America.
Less cars? Maybe so.
I started eating chocolate on a regular basis when I learned that the world's oldest person, Jeanne Calment, ate a kilo of chocolate per week sometimes. I lost all restraint then. If she can, I can. Sometimes I feel like a reckless fool but not today, not after this video. Thanks :)
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Well, the study used Cocoa extract, not dark chocolate. Their might be some nuances that might not allow to make a correlation between the two. One of them is that extracts have a much higher in flavonoid than just dark chocolate. Also, I would think that telling the dosage they used would be in important piece of information.
Are you sure it wasn't cocao extract. Raw dark chocolate would be better than cocoa extract
You can just google the flavanol content and equate that with a certain level of cocoa powder, not that hard. 500mg flavanol, 80mg epicatechin, which is somewhere around 20g of cocoa powder, depends on the quality.
I’ve been eating dark chocolate for many years.
The healthiest chocolate out there is Ghiradelli 86% Dark Chocolate. It has load lead and cadmium.
One of the greatest channels on UA-cam.
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Yeeesss! 💝 I love backing cacao powder. So 100%, in organic and fair trade quality. I mix it with fruits and sometimes if the fruits are not sweet enough, with bit of sugar. So I control what is "inside". Now I am happy, that this isn't only tastfull but also healthy 😍
Affordable too
Ive started putting raw cacao powder on bran in the morning
Most interesting! In the UK, you can order Montezumas 100% cacao dark chocolate in either plain, almond or orange, online.
Great video. Thanks!
On it! Thanks for going through the mechanisms, my favourite part of your videos. I learn something new every time!
(I drink hot chocolate instead of coffee everyday! Well, raw cacao, but still, it feels like such a treat!)
Love it, thanks for the info.
I know Theobromine is similar to caffeine. But I didn't know it influenced cGMP like Sildenafil. Confession is good for the Soul, and Chocolate is good for the Pole!
Don't forget your L. Arginine!
I focus a lot on feeding the mechanics of my cells but there is definitely something in the chocolate my body NEEDS and Ive been trying to narrow it down, so this is extremely helpful.
Thank you🙌
I ate a ton of chocolate yesterday 😂 which means a week of intermittent fasting, but seriously i have a pea protein shake daily and i put a large amount of cocoa powder in it, along with some collagen.
Wishing for word on 14gms daily of 100% Cacao baking chocolate.
As usual, great stuff. There is quite debate on Olive oil VS whole olives for polyphenols content and polyphenols typology on the blueprint subreddit - would be super interesting to have your view on this!
Great video! I love geeking out on this stuff. The music at the end was a bit loud, though.
How do oxalates in chocolate offset/affect the benefits?
I add raw cacao powder to my smoothies and coffee. I love chocolate bars also, but I don’t eat them too often because of the sugar and cocoa butter content. Maybe you could find studies on the effects of Cocoa butter in the body.?
That's good news, as like dark chocolate.
On a side-note. An American friend of mine said, after he tasted Swiss chocolate here in Europe, that there is no good chocolate in the US. He relies now on "care-packets" from Germany for chocolate. 🙂
He's right.
Recently Jamie Oliver the celebrity chef got Cadbury to reduce the sugar and now I enjoy that.
But my favourite is
cote d or......Belgian .....in the red pack
Love your sense of humour
Thanks for the content. Great stuff. I add 1 tablespoon to my protein coffee with MCT everyday.
chocolate as bait?
I'll bite
short format nice and cool
i know you suffer, but we are HDHDHDDHHD
I'd like to take this great information into the grocery store with me. How do I identify "un-dutched" chocolates? For example, after the last video about cocoa powder and mitochondrial health a few weeks ago, I went into the store and bought Ghirardelli's baking (70%) cocoa powder, which didn't seem to mention the Dutch process.
I do add it to my smoothies and yogurt. But how do I verify it doesn't have cadmium or lead in it?
Thanks for your hommage to the chocolate, and i have a funny theory: Flav of Cocoa are working hand in hand with gluthatione and the other good guys, forward to make strong endothelial, so a much of lip(a) to repair damages is not required. (I hope there´s not a lot of fantasy) 🤣🤣🤣
Hu chocolate was shown to have higher than advertised cadmium if I recall correctly. I've wondered for a long time how to assess the chocolate I use. I've been using betterbody organic cocoa powder from Walmart lately. I've used dark cocoa powder in my groat oats for years. My friend got worried about lead being in cocoa powder so she had her children tested for lead because they had been consuming it also in their oatmeal for years. But their blood work looks fine. Bryan Johnson sells a tested legit brand I would like to try...
I wonder if the polyphenol oxidase in bananas reduces the dark chocolate flavonol levels... Dr Greger just talked about advantages of dark chocolate years ago anf heavy metals but I love how you break it down mechanistically!
Today, I read an article about cocoa prices roughly doubling since the start of 2024.
Cool jams at the end of the vid Nick - what's the song? Reminds me of my childhood when I played Jazz the Jackrabbit 2
Thank you for explaining this. Please explain more on theobromine. I take it to prevent asthma a 500 mg cap each day, among other measures. Thanks
If I did the math right, you need 45 grams of 70% chocolate to get 500mg of theobromine.
I'm learning a bit today, oxytocin helps the inflammation of asthma, theobromine and vitamin d are precursors to oxytocin.
NAC and onion / Garlic Family help.
Super Interesting. Many thanks for sharing. High oxylate content of dark chocolate would be another concern particularly for calcium oxylate formers. But I guess other factors would apply there such as amount of dark chocolate they consume in conjuction witj adequate fluid and calcium consumption And also daily total sodium and sugar intake and daily consumption of other high oxylate foods. Generally soeaking, white chocolate which does not have the same benefits is recommended for calcium oxylate kidney stone formers.
I put 90% dark chocolate on oatmeal/porridge each morning, melty chocolaty goodness
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How much chocolate is beneficial 🤔
So any recommendations?
This is just what I need to hear before eating some double chocolate cake.
I already started adding a tablespoon 100% raw cocoa powder to my breakfast on the recommendation from Bryan Johnson. And also a spoon of ceylon cinnamon.
Unfortunately where i live its impossible to know the metal content of any of these products.
I wonder what those chocolate brands that test for heavy metal contents are...
Good question.
@@citadel9611
Do they make cocoa powder?
Consumer Reports tested a bunch of different brands, even within brands there were differences. As I recall some of the darker Ghirardelli chocolates had the lowest levels.
@@JRP3this is correct. Ghirardelli had the lowest. I think it was a specific type of ghirardelli but I don’t know which one it was.
The most tested brand is by Brian Johnson and his blueprint for longevity brand , they show you the test results on every order , look up Brian Johnson blueprint
What about adding Nibs to one's smoothie?
Nope, can't take the Oxalates. Extremely itchy for days (in a TMI) area.
Damn didn't realize it has oxylates. I have to be careful with it too because I'm ver sensitive to caffeine.
Can it be it contain magnesium
Green tea also has this flavonoids
Thank you for explaining the mechanisms, much appreciated.
Cocoa has good amounts of selenium and zinc. Those buddies will protect you from the heavy metal bullies like cadmium, lead, etc.
Same thing applies for seafood.
Cocoa Via everybody. Great source of the flavanols. A little pricey but I think it's worth it
Mechanisms Shmechanisms...all I know Nic is for the last two months I've started having greek yogurt mixed with 2 big tea spoons of some expensive cocoa powder and a bit of honey and man do I sleep better and feel more relaxed. Also a lot more energy in the gym...like a lot.
Hi nic.
Every time I read anything about a supplement helping performance I search for papers showing it eliminates or blunts exercise adaptations.
I started doing this after the research came out about the research that overturned Vitamin C and E heart benefits, then later research showing C and E both reduce adaptations to exercise.
When I started hearing about chocolate, I did the same and found epicatechins reduce improvements to mitochondrial function in response to exercise.
Seems like epicatechins have benefits on their own and in combination with exercise.
Vitamin C and E have studies find some impact on exercise and others finding none.
@@loganmedia1142 for the search
epicatechins adaptations exercise
I got only one result that's a human study and it showed epicatechins blocking / inhibiting aerobic exercise adaptations.
It looks like there are mouse studies and test tube tissue studies but only the one human study.
One of the tissue studies looks like it supports the conclusion of inhibiting adaptations for aerobic, but for strength training epicatechins may aid adaptation.
I'm not an expert in the field so my search may not be exhaustive and I may not have used good search terms but for my own use the safest thing so far seems to be, no chocolate or chocolate derived products around aerobics, and maybe some sugar free coacoa beans on rest days (because of the possible mitochondria benevits) and after strength / hypertrophy work.
I live where I can eat fresh cocoa pods. Love them! When I run out of the fresh I used the dried powder. So my question is where in the processing from pod, dried, or processed chocolate 70% does the heavy metals come from???
Cadmium comes from the soil. Lead from dust and other things in the environment after harvesting.
Where do you guys get your chocolate? I've heard it can be high in heavy metals so I'm wondering what's the best source, thanks!
Anyone have a recommendation for non-dutched, low heavy metal cocoa powder in the UK?
- Thanks.
Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint looks to have a top quality cocoa powder
It's Cacao which has the most beneficial properties over cocoa or chocolate.Cacao (pronounced KakAo) powder from west Africa generally has lower cadmium levels than cacao from South and Central America, where soil cadmium levels are usually higher. By
What’s the outro music called? It’s extremely funky and gotta listen to the whole thing
I haven't found the answer to this remedy / treatment, but I was told when my grandfather suffered a heart attack (1963, Australia), in hospital he was made to eat chocolate (apparently he hated chocolate). I haven't found the reason, except maybe a belief it eased chest pain? Anyone know?
it could simply be how much magnesium is in cocoa
Epicatechine.. i have it as supplement, take before workout and in the morning.. no need to eat all the stupid sugar, for that amount of Epicatechine i'd probably had to eat to plates fo 80% dark Chocolate - but i eat that aswell, additionally :P (yes, Dark Chocolate has e.g. also a lot of aluminium - which mimics/replaces iron.. not good)
Could you talk about stearic acid?
For what outcome?
@@Physionic When tested on mice it cured diabetes.
The building blocks of the endothelial lining needs copper manganese and zinc.
I took supplements all through covid times .been 4 years in all now.
64 and quite fit
Isnt chocolate high in oxalates?
How am I going to find out the mineral concentrations?
I already take Arginine on an empty stomach each morning, to raise my Nitric Oxide levels. So it sounds like I should add to that consuming dark chocolate. I may try that. So far the AAKG form of Arginine seems pretty potent as I often don’t need coffee to feel alert soon after consuming it. Placebo effect? Hopefully not and I really am getting the benefit dilated blood vessels.
What's the maximal effective dose?
Do we know how long polyphenols and antioxidants stay in the body?
polyphenols and flavonoids in coffee and cocao aren't killed off by high heat?
And how much per day, if I may ask?😊
You should do natto beans reversing heart disease
Yahusha bless you !!!
One does need to be aware of the extreme oxalate level of the high percentage of dark cacao, it is a double edge sword, for those that are concerned, and are knowedgable of oxalate loads! :P
Most oxalate rich foods are very healthy so this is a unwarranted concern.
Excellent point
@@ns1extreme "very healthy" in very shitty low quality epidemiological studies. As soon as you factor in Anti-nutrients and bioavailability, these "very healthy" foods quickly become a health detriment. Almost always the measureable increase in healthy markers is a result of less processed foods and not the properties of the foods they replaced it with. Rarely do we see therapeutic levels of effect when oxalate rich foods are used exclusively. But very often you see therapeutic levels of effect when "proccessed" sugary foods are replaced with animal based food sources.
Keep your low quality Evidence, and have fun deluding yourself into being a herbivore.
@@snakeace0 you are correct
We are still talking about oxalate...no one died from them oxalates
Tyramine
Not too many metal contaminants?
I have some 100% pure baking cocoa every day. Nestle's is the lowest price.
if epicatechins are what is important, then green tea must be a super powerhouse, albeit chocolate might be more convenient
would love a video about heavy metals in food! is there even any chocolate that has 0% heavy metals lol? how much do we absorb and how harmful is it? and do things like chlorella work to remove them/how should we be consuming that?
Cocoa vs. Cacao?
I got some of Bryan Jonson’s chocolate… but wouldn’t mind finding more sources
?? Care to weigh in on saturated fat in dark choc bars? Understand there are 3 main saturated fats, with at least one being harmful in high enough quantity. Wondering if the total saturated fat, on average, is a wash in dark choc or is a negative if beyond a certain number of grams per day, especially when added to other sources of saturated fat. I drink a cup of cocoa daily for many years, and a couple of squares of dark choc. Also, a high polyphenol diet.
Can be a trigger food for AFIB though.
Companies that test their chocolate for metals? You say that as if these metals are contaminant? While some chocolates have higher levels of lead and cadmium than others, concentration of these metals from soil is a natural characteristic of the cocoa plant, so you can generally expect all chocolate to have unhealthy levels of lead and/or cadmium. If anyone can suggest a brand that doesn't, I'd love to know about it. Not saying chocolate is to be avoided, but it's that moderation thing again.
The lead is not being taken up from the soil by the plant. It gets into the beans after they're harvested. It is definitely a contaminant. I would not be surprised to find that the cadmium in the soil is also from pollution. That would also make it a contaminant.
Let's dance Count Coco Fang!
If it has sugar in it, then it's still junk food going to give you an insulin spike. I do eat chocolate with stevia which I am hoping is better for you, but the alcohol sugars are relatively new food additives and it will take some time to find out if they have their own problems.
For those on minimum saturated fat diets, dutched and un-dutched chocolate contain 7-8% saturated fat by weight. So, is it good for you? Physionic please help us decide.
The only health thing I'm doing right.
What are the threshold levels for heavy metals? Like it's great if my chocolate is tested, but how do I know if it is too high or not 😂
doesn't cacao increase oxalate?
Loved it Nick!
you can protect your heart by staying off caffeine (IMO).
I personally needed to get off caffeine, so I might be biased.
But I think caffeine is actually one of the worst health problems in the US.
Coffee is healthy
Most chocolate marketed in Australia (where I live) contains imitation vanilla. Chocolate imported from Germany is labeled as containing simply vanilla. The difference? For me the difference is instant mouth ulcers, evidently from imitation vanilla which is a petrochemical derivative. Tragically I have never found a safe regional version of coffee (not the caffeine), which gives me acne and other skin infections, even at 78 y.o. Mysteries of the organism.
20 grams of 90% dark on most days here. Those who are sensitive to oxalates may have to consider their chocolate intake or at least their overall oxalate intake.
best thing is drink coffee with dark chocolate.
You get double of the effect.
Does eating like three or more milk chocolate bars equal the health benefits of one 70% dark chocolate bar? You should be getting similar total levels of flavanols. 😺
Not sure if you’re serious,but the sugar will not be good for you.
Dr Rhonda Patrick turned me on to CocoaVia. But, it's processed with alkali. So, I'll look for a non alkalized one now.
tell us more about cocoa's potential of being a cancer fighter
you're gatekeeping info on something that might help thwart cancer?!
I have dark hot cocoa most often since I don’t drink coffee. I have high cadmium and I linked it to my chocolate intake. It’s one of the foods that contain cadmium since i never live near a battery plant. It’s give and take when it comes to benefits of food. 😅
There are brands low in cadmium!
@@ricardorodriguesrr18 yes but when you are dining and eating out, u don’t have a choice on the brands. Just reminding people they need to pick their chocolate wisely
I came up with an elevated cadmium Hair Tissue Analysis after eating dark chocolate 70-95% frequently for a couple of years. Most medical people see a HTA as very subjective though. It was the only heavy metal I had in elevated levels.
@@frankenz66 the hair test was very valuable , it predicted future issues with supplements plan. Arsenic and cadmium and mercury were high and sodium was low. I love hot chocolate and sushi, and did colonics. The result is so helpful.
I am glad that you were able to get those out of your system. I just backed off of steel cut oats and the chocolate. If there is cadmium in the soil at all the oat plant will uptake it for whatever reason. To the best for your health.
Organic dark chocolate only!
Oxalates?
Look it up man!
@@darrenvail8726 I did.
So, why eat chocolate, and not just powdered cocoa directly?