UserWiki:David Hedlund/Dark chocolate milk

Please reset your caffeine tolerance before you begin

Around 80% of the world population consumes caffeine. You need to make sure that you don't have any caffeine tolerance at all to experience the low caffeine quantity found in chocolate. In addition, it's possible that caffeine is cross-tolerant with other adenosine receptor antagonists found in cocoa like theophylline, and theobromine. Also, caffeine is metabolized in the liver into three primary metabolites: paraxanthine (84%), theobromine (12%), and theophylline (4%).

It may take 4-8 weeks of caffeine abstinence to reset tolerance in regular users.

Ingredients

For everyday use, I recommend a light dose when you wake up, and another light dose in the middle of the day. To save you some time, see the common dosage to make a batch for two light doses.

For cocoa ceremonies, go for a single dose of 20-40 grams of cocoa.

Level	Cocoa powder per 65 kg body weight	Other ingredients
Threshold	5 grams, or 1 tbsp	1 tsp Ceyolon cinnamon[],[1] freshly ground. 100 mL milk
Light	10 grams, or 2 tbsp	1 tsp Ceyolon cinnamon,[1] freshly ground. 200 mL milk
Common	20 grams, or 4 tbsp	2 tsp Ceyolon cinnamon,[1] freshly ground. 300 mL milk
Strong	30 grams, or 6 tbsp	3 tsp Ceyolon cinnamon,[1] freshly ground. 400 mL milk.
Heavy	40 grams, or 8 tbsp	4 tsp Ceyolon cinnamon,[1] freshly ground. 500 mL milk

Why low-carb?

Cacao has been used in combination with psilocybin mushroom to improve the trip. However, I strongly recommend against added sugar to food since it easily will impact your mood negatively, which will be greatly intensified on psychedelics. Just to demonstrate, each serving of cinnamon-based chocolate milk help you cut about 20 grams sugars. Also, cutting the sugars will make it sustainable to use dark chocolate milk in everyday life instead of coffee to improve quality of life, since it contains notoriously high amounts of antioxidants.

Comparison of sugar content in low-carb dark chocolate milk versus typical chocolate milk

	Homemade dark chocolate milk, vegan, low-carb				1 cup (244 g) chocolate-flavored drink, whey and milk based
	2 tbsp (10.8 g) unsweetened cocoa	1 cup (244 g) unsweetened soy milk	1 tsp (2.6 g) cinnamon, ground[1]
Sugars	0.19 g	1.37 g	0.056 g		21.2 g
	Total: 1.6 g

Procedures

1. Use a fine strainer to get rid of large particles from the spices, this is for example common with cinnamon. This is an important step because they will not be ground in the blender.
2. Do not heat the milk, as it will possibly destroy sensitive compounds in the cocoa powder.
3. Put the milk in the blender/shaker
4. Add the rest of the ingredients
5. Mix for one minute in a blender, or shake vigorously for a minute in a shaker — you cannot beat a blender when it comes to smoothness, but a shaker is definitely your friend when you are on the go.

All the best! — David Hedlund

Notes

1: Avoid cassia cinnamon. Cassia contains up to 12.18 mg/g coumarin. (He et al., 2005)

External links

• Chocolate milk (Wikipedia)
• Cocoa Health Benefits, Side Effects, Uses, Dose & Precautions (RxList)
• Cocoa Powder Health Benefits, Nutrients per Serving, Preparation Information, and More (WebMD)
• 11 Health and Nutrition Benefits of Cocoa Powder (Healthline)

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