Regular dark chocolate consumption may insulate your heart against cardiac dysfunction: Chocolate-derived compound theobromine-based adjunct therapy for cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis: Theobromine,  one of the main components of dark chocolate, decreases Mir-29 expression, activates Wnt- signaling and its components GSK3B, ICAT/CTNNBIP1, HBP1, and GLIS2, attenuates pathologic hypertrophy, inhibits fibrosis of the heart tissue, and improves cardiac function via upregulation of its target gene, 4/September/2018, 1.42 am