{"id":3797,"date":"2025-12-11T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/dark-chocolate-could-help-slow-ageing-process\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:42:26","slug":"dark-chocolate-could-help-slow-ageing-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/dark-chocolate-could-help-slow-ageing-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark chocolate could help slow ageing process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-12-11 11:42:25<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Eating dark chocolate could slow down the ageing process.<BR><br \/>\nTheobromine &#8211; a chemical compound naturally found in cacao plants and described as a \u201crelatively unexplored dietary phytonutrient&#8221; &#8211;  is in the sweet treat, and it has been loosely linked to longer lifespans.<BR><br \/>\nExperts at King\u2019s College London dug into blood samples from 509 people in the TwinsUK cohort and 1,160 people in the German Kora study. <BR><br \/>\nThey compared levels of theobromine with biological ageing &#8211; the sciencey measure of how old a person&#8217;s body really is, as opposed to their birthday.<BR><br \/>\nAnd the result showed a &#8220;significant association&#8221; between higher circulating levels of theobromine and slower biological ageing.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Ramy Saad, the study\u2019s lead researcher, said: &#8220;This is a very exciting finding, and the next important questions are what is behind this association and how can we explore the interactions between dietary metabolites and our epigenome further?<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;This approach could lead us to important discoveries towards ageing, and beyond, in common and rare diseases.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Jordana Bell, an epigenomics expert at King\u2019s College London, said: &#8220;Our study finds links between a key component of dark chocolate and staying younger for longer.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;While we\u2019re not saying that people should eat more dark chocolate, this research can help us understand how everyday foods may hold clues to healthier, longer lives.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nResearchers tested other molecules found in cocoa and coffee, but say the anti-ageing effect seems unique to theobromine.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Ricardo Costeira, also from King\u2019s College London, said the study highlights &#8220;another molecular mechanism through which naturally occurring compounds in cocoa may support health&#8221;. <BR><br \/>\nBut he added that more research is needed &#8211; especially to see whether theobromine teams up with other dark-chocolate chemicals like polyphenols, powerful antioxidants also found in fruit, veg, tea, coffee and wine.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-12-11 11:42:25 Eating dark chocolate could slow down the ageing process. Theobromine &#8211; a chemical compound naturally found in cacao plants and described as a \u201crelatively unexplored dietary phytonutrient&#8221; &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3798,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/3798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}