Name: The Potential Health Benefits of Chocolate
Uploaded: 2021-03-10T02:13:58.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Potential Health Benefits of Chocolate' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-10. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Potential Health Benefits of Chocolate' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-10. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- 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 of it.
- 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.
I mean, 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?
Like chocolate, chocolate has some...
- Oh 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 gonna live forever,
but actually the woman who lived longest
of everyone in recorded history,
ate two pounds of chocolate a week,
Jean Calment in France.
So at least it could help.
- Two pounds seems excessive.
- It's a lot, but she lived 122.
But chocolate's different in terms of like some chocolate
is like really sugar, sugar-based.
And some chocolate is more of like a kind of,
I really like dark chocolate and peanut butter together.
Like a chocolate bar.
- Yeah, or like a Reese's Pieces.
Yeah, so the dark chocolate is the healthier version
of chocolate on average.
And so these, the darker, pure cacao,
that's where the health benefits are.
- But some people think there's like,
there's some psychoactive benefits to chocolate, right?
To cacao. - Well, there is a little bit, yeah.
Well, so 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
while we're getting COVID tested out there.
- Yep, yeah, exactly.
Talking about our experience last time.
- Yeah, and so there's another thing that happens
that I was reading about.
Some people like chocolate because it replaces,
like it gives them a feeling of being loved.
Have you ever read that?
- I haven't read that, but I mean, 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, lots of people's grandmothers gave them
a little chocolate.
So 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 a, oh God, I wish I could remember it.
See if you can find this, like.
- There's tryptophan in it.
- Really? That's what it is?
- That's what this article says,
there's tryptophan in amino acid, small quantities.
- But it is.
- Flavinits is the, yeah.
- Phenyleniphene or Phenyleniphene, something like that.
- Does it have something to do with love?
What is what it says here?
- Oh, this is, wow, this is fast acting.
- Chocolate in the brain, signs behind chocolate.
But okay, there we go.
Butterflies we feel when falling in love.
Yeah.
- Wow. All right.
Great.
Well, if the internet says it, it must be true.
- Must be.
Because that was the idea that I had read,
that some people like chocolate,
like when they're depressed,
like when they're heartbroken,
they're like chocolate,
sort of a replacement for love.
- Yeah. I mean, I 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.
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