Dark chocolate is shown in hypertensive patients

Researchers from Louisiana State University found out why dark chocolate is so good for our health. It turns contained in the human stomach microbes turn cocoa beans into a natural medicine that lowers blood pressure.

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Science has long been noticed that the use of dark chocolate   It helps to reduce the pressure, but the reasons for this were unknown. American scientists have found out that the whole thing in the process of digestion. When the chocolate is processed in the stomach, while the destruction of some of its components gastric microbes produce molecules that act like real-inflammatory drugs.

This "medicine" into the bloodstream and helps to protect arteries from damage. Dark chocolate   healthy dairy in that it contains significantly higher levels of cocoa beans. Researchers tested three types of cocoa powder - an ingredient for the manufacture of chocolate. All of them were placed in an "artificial stomach", which is a laboratory container from several modified chemical tubes.

The cocoa beans contain polyphenols antioxidants such as catechin and epicatechin, as well as a certain amount of dietary fiber. These components are poorly digested, but efficiently recycled "friendly" bacteria of the intestine. The study found that the fibers pass through the fermentation and large polyphenol polymers are converted into smaller molecules that are more easily absorbed by the body.

"Small polymers exhibit anti-inflammatory activity, - said study author Dr. John Finlay. - When they assimilated the body, inflammation of the weakening of the cardiovascular tissue, which reduces the pressure, and with them the risk of stroke ". (READ MORE)

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