Cocoa Extract Just Earned a Spot in the Longevity Stack
Forget everything you thought you knew about chocolate and heart health. A massive clinical trial just turned cocoa from dessert into legitimate cardiovascular medicine...
The Numbers That Changed Everything
The COSMOS trial tracked 21,442 older adults for nearly four years. Half took a daily cocoa extract supplement. Half got a placebo. The results? A 27% reduction in cardiovascular deaths among those taking cocoa flavanols.
Not better markers. Not promising trends. Actual lives saved.
The supplement delivered 500 mg of cocoa flavanols daily, including about 80 mg of epicatechin - the key compound that makes this work. This wasn’t chocolate bars or hot cocoa. This was a standardized, tested extract that isolated the beneficial compounds while leaving the sugar and processing junk behind.
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