LOL! Study shows that cocoa enhances endurance

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Chocolate can enhance exercise performance, according to a new mouse study.

Published in The Journal of Physiology, the study claims the intake of cocoa component, resulted in a greater endurance capacity in mice during exercise. This is because the component induced structural and metabolic changes in the animals’ skeletal and cardiac muscles, said the scientists from University of California, San Diego.

The majority of science into the potential benefits of cocoa has revolved around cardiovascular benefits of the flavanols (also known as flavan-3-ols or catechins), particularly the monomeric flavanol (-) epicatechin, a class of molecules that are thought to have widespread effects on the body.

In the study, twenty-five one-year-old male mice were examined over 15 days to examine the effect that epicatechin intake had on factors such as the mice’s exercise performance, muscle fatigue, capillarity and mitochondrial biogenesis. This was done by examining the animal’s hindlimb and heart muscles.

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