Choco Stories

Cacao Is Not Just Chocolate: Blood Flow, Skin Repair, and the Power of Ritual
Cacao Is Not Just Chocolate: Blood Flow, Skin Repair, and the Power of Ritual
Cacao is not just chocolate.In its pure form, it is a plant that speaks to the body. High-flavanol cacao supports blood flow, calm focus, and the body’s natural repair systems... Read more...
When a Mouse Meets Sugar
When a Mouse Meets Sugar
A tiny mouse, a sugar rush, and a quiet mirror of our own cravings. This piece translates a lab experiment into real life & showing how sugar talks to the... Read more...
Sugar Is Sweet. Until It Isn’t.
Sugar Is Sweet. Until It Isn’t.
Sugar used to be a treat.Now it’s background noise.Here’s how that changes your body — your skin. Read more...
What Is Anandamide? Your Body’s Built-In Bliss Messenger
What Is Anandamide? Your Body’s Built-In Bliss Messenger
Your body makes its own bliss.Discover anandamide — the quiet molecule behind pleasure, presence, and why cacao feels so deeply good. Read more...
Why the Aztecs Treated Chocolate Like Gold (And Said “Nope” to Some People)
Why the Aztecs Treated Chocolate Like Gold (And Said “Nope” to Some People)
For the Aztecs, chocolate was sacred. Fancy. Serious business. Think: “I want that,I trust this,I know exactly how to use it, please take my money, you magical cacao god.”But here’s... Read more...
Sugar-Free Chocolate in Da Nang (That Doesn’t Turn Your Brain Into Mashed Potato)
Sugar-Free Chocolate in Da Nang (That Doesn’t Turn Your Brain Into Mashed Potato)
Most “healthy” chocolate still smacks you with sugar, seed oils, and ingredient lists that look like a math test. You want something else: a cacao moment that feels rich, calm,... Read more...