Cocoa

• Isoquinolines and Parkinson's disease:
  • Presence of tetrahydroisoquinoline and 1-methyl-tetrahydro- isoquinoline in foods: compounds related to Parkinson's disease
    
  • Endogenous risk factors in Parkinson's disease: dopamine and tetrahydroisoquinolines
    
  • Tetrahydroisoquinoline derivatives as possible Parkinson's disease-inducing substances
    
  • Role of noradrenergic system in the mechanism of action of endogenous neurotoxin 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline: biochemical and functional studies
    

• Salsolinol in Parkinson's disease:
  • Dopamine-derived endogenous N-methyl-(R)-salsolinol: its role in Parkinson's disease
    
  • In vitro pharmacological activity of the tetrahydroisoquinoline salsolinol present in products from Theobroma cacao L. like cocoa and chocolate
    

• Kidney stones:
  • Increase in calciuria and oxaluria after a single chocolate bar load
    
  • Effect of cocoa on excretion of oxalate, citrate, magnesium and calcium in the urine of children
    

• Insulin
  • Cocoa powder increases postprandial insulinemia in lean young adults
    

• Theobromine:
  • Reproductive toxicity of theobromine and cocoa extract in male rats
    
  • Recent advances in caffeine and theobromine toxicities: a review
    
  • Theobromine toxicity on Sertoli cells and comparison with cocoa extract in male rats
    
  • Chronic toxicity/carcinogenicity studies of cocoa powder in rats
    

• Addiction:
  • Chocolate: food or drug?
    
  • "Chocolate addiction": a preliminary study of its description and its relationship to problem eating
    
  • Is cocoa a psychotropic drug? Psychopathologic study of a population of subjects self-identified as chocolate addicts
    

• Anandamide:
  • Marijuana and chocolate
    

Also it has high levels of copper - another potentially- problematical ingredient.

Some of the problems associated with chocololate are associated with chocolate additives. In the links section I include links to some suppliers of unadulterated chocolate. The author is currently not associated with any of these suppliers - not even as a customer.

Cocoa links