The Potential Health Benefits of Chocolate

Yeah, you're a legitimate chocolate fiend. I'm definitely a legitimate chocolate fiend. How much do you eat a day? How much chocolate do you eat a day? Every single morning I have hot chocolate and it takes about 45 minutes of preparation time, has about four different ingredients, so I start that and then I have some chocolate over the course. 45 minutes? Yeah, a lot of it is simmering, so it's not really fully active, but it's some active and some passive intervention. So is this a preparation that you do? Does it prepare you for the day? Is it like a meditation thing? It's probably some kind of morning ritual, but it's just, I don't know, it's very calming for me and by the time after this 45 minutes, it's like pudding. It's like this thick, bubbling hot chocolate. It brings me joy. I feel like everyone should start their day with joy. There's some positive qualities and it's not just a good tasting thing, right? Oh yeah. Chocolate has some ... Well yeah, dark chocolate especially has all kinds of very positive health benefits. I'm not saying that everyone should just eat chocolate bars all day and you're going to live forever, but actually the woman who lived longest of everyone in recorded history ate two pounds of chocolate a week, Jean-Camel in France, so at least it could help. Two pounds seems excessive. It's a lot, but she lived 122. Chocolate's different in terms of some chocolate is really sugar-based and some chocolate is more of a ... I really like dark chocolate and peanut butter together. Like a chocolate bar? Yeah, or like a Reese's Pieces. The dark chocolate is the healthier version of chocolate on average. The darker pure cacao, that's where the health benefits are. Some people think there's some psychoactive benefits to chocolate, right? There is a little bit, yeah. Cacao has been used ceremonially for about 5,000 years, so there definitely is a history of that and it has some ... I mean it's not as psychoactive as some of the other stuff you talk about on the show, but it has a little bit of it. Well, we did a podcast before the podcast where we're getting COVID tested out there. Yeah, exactly. Exactly, talking about our experience last time. Yeah. There's another thing that happens that I was reading about some people like chocolate because it replaces ... it gives them a feeling of being loved. Have you ever read that? I haven't read that, but maybe it's true. I don't know whether there's something ... I doubt there's something that's chemical about chocolate, but I think there's probably an association with chocolate and happiness and everybody's ... I hope lots of people's grandmothers gave them little chocolates. I think that there's a little bit of that ... maybe it's part of the chocolate, maybe it's part of our experience. I think it's like go ... God, I wish I could remember it. See if you can find this. Just trip to fan it. Really? That's what it is? What's this article says is trip to fan amino acid, small quantities. But it ... Flavinitz is the ... Yeah. Does it have something to do with love? What is what it says here? Oh, this is fast acting. Chocolate in the brain signs behind chocolate, but okay, there we go. Butterflies we feel when falling in love. Yeah. Great. Well, if the internet says it, it must be true. Must be. That was the idea that I had read that some people like chocolate when they're depressed, when they're heartbroken. Yeah. They like chocolate sort of a replacement for love. Yeah, I mean, definitely if you're feeling bad and you eat chocolate, you're probably going to feel better. So maybe it is a replacement in a little way. Catch new episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience for free only on Spotify. Watch back catalog JRE videos on Spotify, including clips, easily, seamlessly switch between video and audio experience. On Spotify, you can listen to the JRE in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data costs all for free. Spotify is absolutely free. You don't have to have a premium account to watch new JRE episodes. You just need to search for the JRE on your Spotify app. Go to Spotify now to get this full episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.