Show 1307: Cocoa Compounds and the COSMOS Trial (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week on our nationally syndicated radio show, we explore the power of cocoa compounds to help heart health. Our first guest is Harvard’s Dr. JoAnn Manson, lead investigator of the COSMOS trial. That stands for Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study. This very large, randomized placebo-controlled study looked at the effects of a multivitamin […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at's Pharmacy.com.
0:14.0	Is it possible to get health benefits from chocolate without the sugar, fat, and calories,
0:21.0	Cocoa Flavinols to the rescue.
0:23.5	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. Harvard scientists conducted a huge randomized placebo-controlled study of
0:38.8	cocoa flabenols and multivitamins. What did they learn from the Cosmos trial?
0:44.8	Dr. Joanne Manson is one of the most respected epidemiologists in the world.
0:50.2	She and her colleagues have studied dietary supplements with rigor.
0:54.0	She'll share what she has learned about cocoa flavinols.
0:58.0	We'll find out why ancient civilizations were so excited about Kekow,
1:02.0	and what it can do for you.
1:03.8	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, Health Headlines, an analysis published in the
1:18.8	BMJ demonstrates long-range transmission of the coronavirus over more than six feet is common indoors.
1:26.0	The 18 studies covered COVID outbreaks in various community settings between 2020 and
1:32.3	2022.
1:34.0	These included singing events, a fitness facility,
1:37.5	restaurants, buses, a courtroom, a food processing factory,
1:42.0	apartment buildings, and quarantine hotels.
1:45.3	Individuals identified as the source of the infection were often asymptomatic or
1:50.7	pre-symptomatic. The epidemiologists identified several factors associated with
1:56.2	transmission. Chief among them was inadequate air replacement or inappropriate airflow direction.
2:03.8	They conclude, these results support the role of mitigation measures in indoor
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