British researchers examining the diets of over 25,000 people found that those in the top 10 percent for flavanol consumption had significantly lower blood pressure (between 2 and 4 points) than those in the bottom 10 percent! While not the first study to show flavanols reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure, it’s probably the largest!… Read more »

“A man is as old as his arteries,” observed the great English physician Thomas Sydenham more than 300 years ago.  More recently, Harvard Health Watch observed, “Your health is only as good as your arteries, since arteries carry vital oxygen-rich blood to all your body’s tissues”. Today we are fortunate to have scientific studies that… Read more »

(and cocoa flavanols are potent nitric oxide boosters!) Some promising news! The FDA added nitric oxide to its emergency expanded access program for the treatment of COVID-19. And… nitric oxide is being investigated in over a dozen clinical trials for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. That’s good news for FlavaFans – cocoa flavanols are… Read more »