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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nPhoto: Monika Grabkowska, Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n No matter who you are, it\u2019s tough to live a life without at least some kind of problems or complication. <\/p>\n What\u2019s even worse is to have a problem you didn\u2019t know about. <\/p>\n So, some of the best things you can do are to get into great general habits. <\/p>\n Because things like regular exercise and great nutrition can help head-off a lot of stuff before it even starts<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n The list of problems exercise reduces or helps you avoid is pretty impressive. <\/p>\n So is the one that nutrition helps with as well. <\/p>\n And the team at Mass-General Brigham is finding out that chocolate might help you avoid a very sneaky hidden problem over time\u2026<\/p>\n Read on to find out the details\u2026<\/p>\n So, it\u2019s pretty funny that a lot of the foods we eat, and the things we put on them<\/em>, turn out to be not just tasty, but helpful. <\/p>\n For example, lots of tasty herbs and spices actually have anti-microbial properties, like all the ones traditionally put in sausages. <\/p>\n Tea isn\u2019t just tasty, tannic, and toasty, coffee isn\u2019t just full-bodied and invigorating.<\/p>\n And it looks like the same is true for another dark roasted thing you can drink.<\/p>\n So in a small\/mid-size trial of about 600 adults, average aged 70, researchers looked at the effects of cocoa-products on health. <\/p>\n But what distinguished this work was its length: two years; when most studies on cocoa last either weeks or months. <\/p>\n Across that time, subjects were given a high-strength cocoa supplement and had their blood tested for 5 different markers.<\/p>\n And it actually made a surprising difference!<\/p>\n Because the stand-out marker turned out to be one for inflammation<\/a>!<\/p>\n And subjects taking the magic supplement had an average 8.4% reduction in it every single year of the trial. <\/p>\n Even better? Those with the highest marker score at the beginning reduced theirs by an amazing 38%\/year!<\/p>\n Well, other than helping the tiny percentage of worst-cases, so what; right? <\/p>\n Who cares if you have a little inflammation. That\u2019s what you take Advil for!<\/p>\n Well that\u2019s the problem. Because it\u2019s not so little<\/em>. <\/p>\n For some weird & unfortunate reason, inflammation seems to set-in and very likely increase as you get older. <\/p>\n The general term used for this and anything that accelerates your aging through the process is called, \u201cInflammaging\u201d.<\/p>\n The scary part of that is there were subjects in the trial who had \u201cDanger Zone\u201d levels of that marker at or above the threshold of 10mg\/l. <\/p>\n So for them, the problem may have been hidden, but it was a big one.<\/p>\n And the idea that a simple thing like fancy cocoa making such a difference is pretty big news.<\/p>\n For example, here are just a few of the problems tied to this kind of inflammation that many people just seem to pick up with age:<\/p>\n 1)<\/strong> Heart attack For example given the current results, researchers estimate the range of decrease in cardio disease could go from 7-23%.<\/p>\n And their previous work with 21,000 subjects over 6 years showed reductions in cardio-based mortality and serious disease by 27%!<\/p>\n But here\u2019s some bad news & good news.<\/p>\n First, you can\u2019t really eat enough dark chocolate, even at the strongest concentration made, which is currently Lindt 100%.<\/p>\n The supplements subjects took (in 500mg doses\/day) had somewhere around 24x the specific compounds you might find in chocolate. <\/p>\n They\u2019re very likely the CocoaVia ones you see on Amazon<\/a>. <\/p>\n However, because these compounds are everywhere in things like tea, coffee, berries and many other plant-based foods,<\/p>\n That means you can get them in many different places and without all the fat & sugar that\u2019s in the kind of chocolate most people eat. <\/p>\n You can find some great sources right here in the flavonoid superpost<\/a>.<\/p>\n It might be hard to find the ultimate Superfood, especially because that term gets thrown-around so much. <\/p>\n But it\u2019s looking like cocoa might be right up there with blueberries and nuts. <\/p>\n And for those who are curious, you can always have a small guess at your own inflammation. <\/p>\n A lot of time, it will show up as sniffles, feeling a little \u201csinusy\u201d, a mild headache, <\/p>\n Or even feeling not sleepy, but mentally-fatigued, usually out of nowhere. <\/p>\n This is also how you can tell whether or not you ate something that caused inflammation, like UPFs.<\/p>\n The tendency will be not \u201ccarbohydrate sleepiness\u201d, but mental fatigue<\/a>. <\/p>\n Also, there\u2019s no real guarantee that excess inflammation is restricted to older people. <\/p>\n And among things like flavonoids in that superpost, it also turns-out that Exercise itself is anti-inflammatory<\/a>!<\/p>\n So, you may not have to buy an expensive supplement if you can avoid the wrong foods, and get the right ones.<\/p>\n -Especially if you get things like tea, coffee, or the occasional piece of the highest-powered dark chocolate you can stand!<\/p>\n That, and regular exercise could help ward-off stealth-health problems like \u201cInflammaging\u201d before you even thought about them. <\/p>\n Living To 100+<\/a>? -HERE WE COME!!<\/p>\n \u2022 Source: MassGen Brigham<\/a> Photo: Monika Grabkowska, Unsplash The Old \u201cMagic Elixir\u201d Name Might Be Right, Especially For Anti-Aging: No matter who you are, it\u2019s tough to live a life without at least some kind of problems or complication. What\u2019s even worse is to have a problem you didn\u2019t know about. So, some of the best things you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110118,136719,100628],"tags":[7097,138800,8220,4629,18455,37351],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-308275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aging","category-cocoa","category-inflammation","tag-aging","tag-aztecs","tag-cocoa","tag-dont","tag-inflammation","tag-knew"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Old \u201cMagic Elixir\u201d Name Might Be Right, Especially For Anti-Aging:<\/h2>\n
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2)<\/strong> Stroke
3)<\/strong> Hardening arteries
4)<\/strong> Cardio diseases
5)<\/strong> Memory problems
6)<\/strong> Bone frailty
7)<\/strong> Muscle damage
8)<\/strong> Brain damage
9)<\/strong> Arthritis
10)<\/strong> Autoimmune issues
11)<\/strong> Diabetes
12)<\/strong> Other serious diseases<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Source Study: Age&Aging \u2013 Effects of 2-year cocoa extract supplementation on inflammaging biomarkers in older US adults: findings from the COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study randomised clinical trial<\/a>![\"cocoa](\"https:\/\/healthtrekker.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/dark-chocolate-dish-pt.jpg\")
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