FunnyJohn Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Short answer: Microbes in your gut "Dark chocolate might pack a double positive punch for our health"”thanks to the microbes that live in our gut. New research suggests that beneficial bacteria that reside toward the end of our digestive tract ferment both the antioxidants and the fiber in cocoa." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hersch Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 But why is it lethal to dogs? (A rather small amount of dark chocolate will kill a dog stone dead.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoramargolis Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 But why is it lethal to dogs? (A rather small amount of dark chocolate will kill a dog stone dead.) click Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hersch Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 click Interesting, but that's more an answer to "how" than to "why". If we metabolized theobromine more slowly, chocolate would be toxic to us too? Why, given the rather small genetic difference between humans and dogs, do they metabolize that particular compound so slowly that it can kill them, and we metabolize it quickly enough that it just gives us a little kick? (I seem to recall reading somewhere that humans are genetically a 97-percent approximation of mice, and I imagine we're considerably closer to dogs.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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