The Healthy Powers of Dark Chocolate | Dr. William Li
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Kind: captions Language: en you take the really dark chocolate like 73% cacao and you make it into a high flavanol hot chocolate drink and you have it twice a day this was a clinical study they found in people who wound up actually drinking the hot chocolate twice a day over the course of a month they doubled the number of stem cells compared to the people who didn't drink hot CH so the question is is that important when they measured their blood flow they found that the blood flow was much vastly improved wow surely dark chocolate can't be good for you well it actually is time School the study he's referring to is this randomized control trial in 2010 where they took 16 patients with coronary artery disease and provided them with dark chocolate drinks with either a high or low flavonol content the high flavonol drinks led to a reduction in blood pressure and the number of circulating angiogenic cells or cac's increase by twofold and these cells are important for vascular repair and the maintenance of endothelial function you see dark chocolate is packed with nutrients that positively impact your health all thanks to the seed of the cacao tree not only is it rich in fiber iron magnesium and copper but dark chocolate is rich in specific antioxidants called polyphenols and flavonols and it even has more antioxidant activity than blueberries which is pretty crazy and this is why in meta analysis of 12 control studies on patients with type 2 diabetes they saw that cacao products led to significant improvements in LDL cholesterol triglyceride blood glucose and C reactive protein so the Dark of the chocolate the sweet to the benefits CL has missed
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