Cacao Therapy for the Ill

A mission to bring disadvantaged people to the Heart and into Community.

I want to expand my heart space more to offer others the chance for Chocolate Therapy, I'll aim to run at a donation going towards costs. I'm going to invest a bit getting this happening and run at a loss. It sounds insane but after seeing how potently therapeutic a change I can make in my life through plant allies, I want to do the same for others and inspire a shift towards such healing, legally.

Seeing I'm mainly wanting to cater to people where money is already an issue, I can't ask for money. I just ask that people use this medicine to inspire real life heart changes. That said, I will open myself to external donations from others if they want to support such a mission. I'm going to use a GoFundMe page to inspire grassroots cacao therapy for the disadvantaged. GoFundMe's fee is 5% from each donation you receive. The payment processor fee is 2.25% + $0.30 per donation. If you want to be more direct and know me, do it that way. All donations are strictly for expanding my medicine circle.

All funds will support local suppliers and ethical cacao products

Not expecting I'll recover costs but this is a mission from the Heart, not the pocket so that's cool.

Much love and gratitude for any support you can offer!

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Cacao therapy is so synergistic as a whole medicine for the Soul. Extracting just the alkaloids takes part of the magic out but it looks like spicing up the magic of the raw cacao flavonols with solid levels of spirited methylxanthines is really therapeutic...

A substantial interaction between cocoa flavanols and methylxanthines exists at the level of absorption, in which the methylxanthines mediate an increased plasma concentration of (-)-epicatechin metabolites that coincides with enhanced CNS/vascular effects commonly ascribed to cocoa flavanol intake.

MTXs act through a variety of different molecular mechanisms: mobilization of intracellular calcium, inhibition of phosphodiesterases (PDEs), modulation of gamma-amino butyric acid (GABAA) receptors, inhibition of high affinity ATP-dependent cyclic nucleotide transporters and antagonism of adenosine receptors. The plasma levels that could be reached under dietary regimes and the fact that MTXs readily cross the blood-brain barrier indicate that these drugs inhibit adenosine receptors in the CNS; higher doses may be required to mobilize intracellular calcium, inhibit PDEs or modulate GABAA receptors, or to unselectively inhibit ABCC5 and ABCC4 transporters. Moreover, despite the physiological relevance, also under scrutiny is how caffeine, theobromine and theophylline are able to interact with native double helical DNA

Cocoa and chocolate are not just treats -- they are good for your cognition: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170629101648.htm

Health benefits of methylxanthines in neurodegenerative diseases: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28074613