Can You Replace Some Sweet Food With a Few Squares of Dark Chocolate Everyday?

Small amounts of dark chocolate can have clinically relevant effects on blood pressure and cholesterol levels. The epidemiological data suggests three to five times a week, a few squares a day. Gut bacteria munch up the flavonoids into what we think are metabolites that are much more cardioprotective than they pair in the compounds. And then they travel through the blood presumably to the heart, but also to the brain? Yes, they can... They seem to have effects on cerebral blood flow in particular.