Andrew Huberman· PhD
So, ethically sourced. And and you mentioned cacao beans. So, the the the raw cacao beans that I'm now eating every morning. Um, usually a not immediately in the morning, usually like half hour before my first meal of the day, which for me falls a little bit late morning or closer to lunch, but I'll have five or 10 of those things. Boy, do I look forward to it as I mentioned. And and those raw cacao beans are essentially the same as the 100% chocolate in terms of polyphenol content >> pretty much. I think I I mean again I'm not an expert and I haven't done analysis of those but I'm I'm pretty sure that most of those would be retained in the processing um into into chocolate as a food. Um, you know one thing that strikes me is probably one of the first things I ever learned of a natural product was the shells for the beans. So, uh, growing up as a kid in Pittsburgh, um, there was a lot of rose bushes around and people would use, um, cacao shells as a fertilizer for the rose bushes. And so, you would walk by and as a kid, I would get this waft of chocolatey smell um, along with that smell of the roses, you know, and it's like, what a Valentine's Day. >> It's like these things were meant to be together. So, it's just a weird side note, just a memory that you brought back. But >> I love that. And I really think there's something uh pseudospiritual or spiritual about these combinations of molecules that exist in plants. And sure, the plants are fending for themselves and the fungi are fending for themselves and the birds and the geckos and the humans, but the same biological um motifs >> are used over and over again throughout nature. Um, and of course some species like insect species rely more on one neurom modulator. We're more a cocktail of >> serotonin, dopamine, epinephrine, and and acetylcholine. Uh, >> but there there does seem to be um something to it. Maybe AI will pull out some of the um some of the thematics of that going forward. So, cacao, great. So, I'm not alone in my um love of raw cacao beans and 100% chocolate, but look for sustainably sourced. Um, >> ethically sourced. >> Ethically, excuse me, ethically sourced. Now, that's an important distinction.