The Complexities of Chocolate During the holidays, people eat lots of sweets.
Chocolate is one sweet that is popular any time of the year.
News to Chew On Tomas Herraiz, a Spanish chemist, has recently isolated one more chemical from chocolate. They work by inhibiting the reuptake of the serotonin. The net result is an increase in the amount of serotonin within the synapse. They inhibit the binding of benzodiazepines on their receptors. Serotonin and dopamine have been shown to influence mood, food intake and compulsive behaviors.