Is Dark Chocolate Net Positive? (Heavy Metals)

[Thought Art]

It seems dark chocolate has many potential health benefits like heart health, etc but who knows

[Yimpa]

I eat dark chocolate in moderation. It’s expensive, so that helps me not over consume it. I can probably save money on the powder, but that shit tastes nasty.

[integral]

On 7/2/2024 at 8:47 AM, Michael569 said:

pseudoscience is not synonym for bullshit. Pseudoscience means there isn't enough science yet which leaves a lot of room for uneducated interpretation, this has been happening all the time throughout the history of humanity.  It can also mean that there is actually so much science that the public is left overwhelmed and people just sort of make up their own pseudoscientific conclusions based on hearsay, feeling, marketing and guessing. Pseudoscience can also be a source of future science for example an accumulation of personal anecdotes can be a stage of of clinical trial design eventually.

Personal anecodes become collected as Case Studies -> those are being collected by doctors as case series -> sufficient amount of case series may trigger first experimental case control studies or cross sectional studies -> with enough data and time and money, these may progress into retrospective cohort studies and later on with more funding and data into prospective studies -> eventually RCTs and if we get enough of everything, the data will be systematically reviewed and meta-analysed.

At that stage because so much has been collected, we can have faith that what the science shows is probably more reliable than hunches and guesses although it does not mean it has 100% correct answers, just makes it more likely that the true effect has probably been captured relatively precisely....with more time it will either be narrowed down further or actually the direction may start changing. 

It's perfectly fine that polyphenols have been shown to protect your DNA, all that's good and fine. Theobromin will upregulate all of your adenosine receptors, how that will function within the whole system is now you're introducing something in there that will cause the system to use more energy. All of these studies focus on one facet, do I think dark chocolate is some kind of healthy beverage that you should take every day no especially if you have any impairment in your sleep because your adenosine receptors are going to be overly stimulated and out of balance with poor sleep schedule or whatever else you're doing. Bryan Johnson can take dark chocolate in probably a healthy way because none of his adenosine receptors matter if they're being stimulated or not because his sleep is perfect. For the average person dark chocolate will not benefit them. Each individual's system is completely different and dark chocolate is an obvious performance enhancer so it's completely unnecessary to introduce polyphenols in the form of dark chocolate just use a different substance. 

If you have any kind of mental issue where how you relate to your body on a daily basis create excessive cortisol then coffee and dark chocolate will exasperate that and cause excessive stress excessive deterioration and catabolism within your system. For the majority of people they don't need these stimulates in their system. Even saying all that there's these clear exception of people who literally just drink coffee smoke cigarettes and live to 120, because not eating is apparently 10 times more effective than anything else.

Fruitarians are stacked with flavonoids and polyphenols and their hair turns gray faster than anyone else. We can't use the studies to predict the effects in larger systems without thinking about the whole like it just doesn't make any sense. 

Science focuses on narrow single facets within a system. So then you need to mix and match every study all together to then pick the correct food and we decide that olive oil is probably it, except if you can't digest fats properly forget about that, which is half the population.

If we really think about the whole picture it doesn't matter at all what you eat it matters more when you eat how often you eat and your overall strategy for health. What you eat is the least important factor.

You're better off determining what is true completely indirectly then using these ridiculous studies to figure out the perfect thing to to mix and match together to eat. If you look at your sleep Behavior and you eat foods that maximize your sleep then you're probably better off figuring out what foods are healthier than other Foods. Looking at food through a microscope is not how you figure out if food is healthy or not.

Edited July 10, 2024 by integral

[Schizophonia]

It’s a lot of concerns for not so much virtual results.

[cjoseph90]

I love Hu, mmmm

[Yimpa]

@cjoseph90 darn, my favorite chocolate brand  didn’t make it to the show (Ghirardelli)