@Salmonlamb
As for your other points, none of the properties of LABs can't be replaced by the safer agents I mentioned that solve lower gastric acid otuput , since all those changes are made by allowing acidity to remove endotoxins, and the intestinal permeability effect is solved by the avoidance of gut irritants and food that promotes an unhealthy gut microbiota. I don't think that ingesting one of the most important sources of Oxalate is completely mitigated by having good health, since it is literally a cause of shifting the health balance toward the negative end. We'll have to see if chocolate doesn't raise Nitric Oxide in healthy individuals, but I hardly see why it would raise it 4-fold in unhealthy people but not in healthy ones. I notice a pro nitric oxide effect personally and I don't have blood pressure issues. Cocoa powder is also an important source of Aluminium, a neuro-toxic metalloestrogen, and while it falls under "acceptable human consumption ranges", how many times has these ranges been changed decades later after realizing lesser concentrations are also unhealthy. And things aren't black or white, sure you can find beneficial properties to cocoa but when several vitamins/minerals affect the same parameters (TLR, endotoxin, inflammation, dopamine) while not having the negative effects of the former, there is no reason to rely on it.
As the prostate cancer study shows, it doesn't have a net beneficial effect.
Find me an important source of theobromine other than cocoa. That is how epidemiologic studies work, when they refer to caffeine intake it is usually coffee since its the most important and popular source, and alcohol intake isn't from pure ethanol but one of its sources.They never mentioned cocoa in the study.
As for your other points, none of the properties of LABs can't be replaced by the safer agents I mentioned that solve lower gastric acid otuput , since all those changes are made by allowing acidity to remove endotoxins, and the intestinal permeability effect is solved by the avoidance of gut irritants and food that promotes an unhealthy gut microbiota. I don't think that ingesting one of the most important sources of Oxalate is completely mitigated by having good health, since it is literally a cause of shifting the health balance toward the negative end. We'll have to see if chocolate doesn't raise Nitric Oxide in healthy individuals, but I hardly see why it would raise it 4-fold in unhealthy people but not in healthy ones. I notice a pro nitric oxide effect personally and I don't have blood pressure issues. Cocoa powder is also an important source of Aluminium, a neuro-toxic metalloestrogen, and while it falls under "acceptable human consumption ranges", how many times has these ranges been changed decades later after realizing lesser concentrations are also unhealthy. And things aren't black or white, sure you can find beneficial properties to cocoa but when several vitamins/minerals affect the same parameters (TLR, endotoxin, inflammation, dopamine) while not having the negative effects of the former, there is no reason to rely on it.
As the prostate cancer study shows, it doesn't have a net beneficial effect.
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