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    Cocoa Flavanol Supplementation and Exercise: A Systematic Review

    Cocoa flavanols (CFs) have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory capacities and can improve vascular function. It has recently been suggested that CF intake may improve exercise performance and recovery. This syst...

    Lieselot Decroix, Danusa Dias Soares, Romain Meeusen, Elsa Heyman in Sports Medicine (2018)

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    Acute cocoa Flavanols intake has minimal effects on exercise-induced oxidative stress and nitric oxide production in healthy cyclists: a randomized controlled trial

    Cocoa flavanols (CF) can stimulate vasodilation by improved nitric oxide (NO) synthesis and have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory capacities. This study aimed to examine whether acute CF intake can affect exe...

    Lieselot Decroix, Cajsa Tonoli in Journal of the International Society of Sp… (2017)