Chocolate with the addition of dietary cocoa extract improves brain activity and prevents age-related neurodegenerative disorders, for example, Alzheimer's disease, according to an Internet publication for girls and women aged 14 to 35 Pannochka. net Specialists at the School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital (New York) came to the conclusion that a new kind of chocolate containing a large number of polyphenols reduces age-related cognitive dysfunction and prevents the aging process of the brain.

This discovery is due to the fact that the cocoa extracts that are added to such chocolate contain much more polyphenols than conventional sweets with cocoa ingredients. Experiments on animals have confirmed that cocoa extract does prevent the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease in animals or inhibits its development.

Polyphenols in large quantities do not give toxic protein components to accumulate in the brain. This process prevents the loss of synapses important for the functional connection between neurons.

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