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hey there Dr Whitley here I am sitting
in a cafe uh in Paris where I've just
sort of wrapped up my research for the
summer on Buddhist medicine
um and I just want to share with you
something I'm doing right now A little
chilly out that's why I'm wearing a
sweater and a scarf it's also raining a
bit everyone's kind of dressed up
sitting at a cafe called the dumago it's
a very famous
cafe in the uh a six around this malware
um this this Cafe is a kind of a
literary Cafe with many famous writers
and philosophers thinkers I actually
came here to hang out and have
conversation so let me tell you what I'm
doing because I needed something to warm
me up I got
that is French hot chocolate it is super
thick
super intense
warm
feels really good and absolutely
delicious so let's talk a little bit
about chocolate chocolate has
proanthocyanins and catechins and uh we
all know that these bioactives and
chocolate activate our body's Health
defenses and they can actually activate
our metabolism as well
now one of the things that chocolate
does is it's definitely good for the
circulation helps protect the lining of
our blood vessels and Studies have shown
in humans that the high polyphenol
chocolates can increase stem cells in
your blood vessels that can help you
regenerate
and that's how you do for the heart for
the brain healthy aging all the the
whole shebang the metabolism part is a
little bit more complicated because it's
very difficult to separate the
polyphenols in dark chocolate from the
sugar that actually comes in chocolate
now even this dark chocolate this cacao
has
a bit of sugar in it
um
and um gotta be careful with having
added sugar but I wanted to talk about
this as a something that I'm actually
going through right now is if it's cold
I wonder something warming didn't want
coffee uh I had tea already uh so I just
wanted to actually have share with you
uh another way of actually getting down
some hot chocolate
in the middle of a cool afternoon now
the other interesting thing that you
should know about is that dark chocolate
has been stuck in the lab and it does
slow down in the lab the process of
muscle aging you know how we should get
over muscles start to kind of break down
an atrophy and one of the things that
you don't want to do is you want to lose
muscle mass and so dark chocolate in
studies those bioactives slow that
process down so it kind of extends the
sort of the youthfulness Vitality of
your skeletal muscle that's the stuff
that we we work out with and we need to
walk around so if you like what you're
hearing uh you're going to love the fact
that I am actually teaching my last Heat
to beat disease of course it's an online
course it's going to start this coming
Monday August 7th and if you click the
link in my bio you'll be able to sign up
for it it's been pretty popular I've
still got as few seats left so for
anyone who's really interested in
getting in if it's if you are ready to
make a change in your life come take my
uh on live course it's really learned on
your own time but I do show up live I am
going to actually be for the first time
talking about my new brand new research
I've done in a Mediterranean so lots of
really great new things we're going to
talk about olives and tomato tapanade
and we're going to talk about artichokes
and melons and a whole bunch of things I
actually discovered just a few weeks ago
in the Mediterranean and so it'll be
super fun super interesting and I hope
to see you there so sign up now links in
a bio and uh hope to see you next Monday
hope you enjoyed this chocolate session
which usually is pretty popular when I
talk about chocolate Dr Lee House