Clinical-grade chocolate is something I came across in one of my writing worlds. It's a much nicer world, and I have taken to digging after why it is nicer and how that can be replicated.
One of the reasons is food and another is emotional first aid. They pay more attention to the practical functions of food -- what boosts mood, what aids different types of healing, etc. They address emotional scrapes and bruises promptly instead of waiting for the "virtuous pus" stage like here. 0_o
Enter clinical-grade chocolate: organic, top-quality, usually quite dark but also comes in "dark milk" and you can even buy a similar grade of white chocolate because the cocoa butter makes a great carrier for fat-soluble vitamins. Dark chocolate has a host of benefits -- it's an enthogen, after all, it's meant to patch up broken humans. So a lot of people in Terramagne keep a supply of the good stuff for emergencies, and some people invest extra whenever they want to use chocolate.
That's a lot better than deciding that the way to deal with a crappy day is to drown it in alcohol.
It's harder to find clinical-grade chocolate here, but not impossible. NibMore is the only place I've seen doing "daily dose" squares, but a wider variety of bars exist, and some companies have taken to adding superfoods to them. So, progress.
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Date: 2021-01-18 07:05 pm (UTC)One of the reasons is food and another is emotional first aid. They pay more attention to the practical functions of food -- what boosts mood, what aids different types of healing, etc. They address emotional scrapes and bruises promptly instead of waiting for the "virtuous pus" stage like here. 0_o
Enter clinical-grade chocolate: organic, top-quality, usually quite dark but also comes in "dark milk" and you can even buy a similar grade of white chocolate because the cocoa butter makes a great carrier for fat-soluble vitamins. Dark chocolate has a host of benefits -- it's an enthogen, after all, it's meant to patch up broken humans. So a lot of people in Terramagne keep a supply of the good stuff for emergencies, and some people invest extra whenever they want to use chocolate.
That's a lot better than deciding that the way to deal with a crappy day is to drown it in alcohol.
It's harder to find clinical-grade chocolate here, but not impossible. NibMore is the only place I've seen doing "daily dose" squares, but a wider variety of bars exist, and some companies have taken to adding superfoods to them. So, progress.