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Dark Chocolate Contains Something That Slows Down How You Age

Scientists just handed chocolate lovers some genuinely exciting news, and this time it has nothing to do with the taste. Researchers at King’s College London analyzed blood samples from more than 1,600 adults across the United Kingdom and Germany and found that people with higher levels of a natural compound called theobromine in their blood consistently appeared biologically younger than their actual age. Theobromine is a plant compound found most abundantly in cocoa, which means it shows up in dark chocolate and, to a lesser degree, in coffee, and the finding was entirely specific to theobromine: when researchers tested every other compound found in cocoa and coffee, not one of them showed the same link to slower aging.

The team measured biological age using two approaches, one that reads chemical changes in DNA to estimate how quickly a person is aging at the cellular level, and another that measures the length of telomeres, the protective caps on chromosomes that shorten over time and are strongly associated with age-related disease. People with more theobromine in their blood scored better on both measures, meaning their bodies appeared to be aging more slowly regardless of how old they actually were. Researchers believe theobromine may interact with the biological machinery that switches genes on and off, a process with deep consequences for how the body changes across a lifetime. The scientists are careful to note that eating more chocolate is not a health prescription, since commercial chocolate also contains sugar and fat, and further research is needed to fully understand the picture. But the team’s senior author summed it up simply and directly: the study finds a meaningful link between a key ingredient in dark chocolate and staying younger for longer.

Source: https://www.earth.com/news/natural-compound-theobromine-in-dark-chocolate-coffee-linked-to-slower-aging/

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