Cocoa and Improved Cognitive Function

• Cocoa flavanols protect cognitive function, cerebral oxygenation, and mental fatigue during severe hypoxia.

  • 2023-08-01
  • RCT · n = 12
  • Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 135(2)
  • • Peter M Bloomfield
    • James P Fisher
    • David M Shaw
    • Nicholas Gant

  • PubMed: 37471213
  • DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00219.2023

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Cognitive Function

  • High evidence

  Overall cognition was impaired by isocapnic hypoxia (effect of hypoxia, P = 0.001) but was not improved by cocoa flavanols (mean improvement = 1%; effect of flavanols, P = 0.72).

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  15 mg/kg body weight