Protein & Nutrition Blog – Marmels

Cocoa flavanols connect dark chocolate to brain function by raising cerebral blood flow to the hippocampus. In a 2023 trial, 500 milligrams of cocoa flavanols a day improved memory in older adults who ate few flavanols to begin with. The catch: those flavanols survive only in minimally processed, high-cacao chocolate. Here is the mechanism, what the research shows, and how to choose a bar that still has flavanols left in it.