
Healthiest & Most Toxic Chocolates - Avoid these Mistakes!
Physionic
May 9, 2025
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Avoid dutched chocolate to preserve health benefits
A process called 'dutching' makes chocolate less bitter but can eliminate up to 90% of its healthy polyphenols, rendering it worthless for health benefits.
Leverage chocolate's molecules to lower blood pressure
Certain molecules in chocolate increase nitric oxide, which relaxes blood vessels and helps reduce blood pressure.
Incorporate chocolate to lower cholesterol levels
Chocolate can reduce blood cholesterol by decreasing its uptake in the intestines and reducing cholesterol synthesis in the liver.
Avoid chocolates with toxic heavy metals for better health
Many popular chocolates contain unhealthy doses of toxic heavy metals like cadmium and lead, which accumulate in your organs.
Avoid toxic metals in chocolates to protect brain cells
Toxic metals found in some chocolates interfere with DNA repair and protein folding, which is particularly harmful to brain cells.
Choose lighter undutched dark chocolate for health benefits
Counterintuitively, the healthier, undutched dark chocolate that you want is often lighter in color than its dutched counterpart.
Choose lab-tested chocolates with low cadmium and lead levels
Baker's unsweetened 100% cacao and Lily's extra dark chocolate 70% have been independently lab-tested for very low levels of cadmium and lead.
More from
Physionic
You also might be interested in
Ben Greenfield Finally Discovers The Healthiest, Tastiest Beef & Steaks (& Learns How To Cook Them Perfectly) with Dr. Phil Bass.
Superfoods Of The Sea, Why "Wild-Caught" Fish Are DIRTY, Fish Oil vs. Fish & More With Seatopia's James Arthur Smith
Bonus: Why Chronic Disease Is Exploding (Full Conversation with Daniel Schmachtenberger)
Gut Health: The Truth You’ve Never Been Told
The Chemistry of Food & Taste | Dr. Harold McGee