Our findings indicate that acute flavonoid-rich dark chocolate intake buffers endocrine stress reactivity at the level of the adrenal gland, suggesting a peripheral stress-protective effect of dark chocolate consumption, particularly as in the dark chocolate group the unaffected ACTH stress response did not result in correspondingly high cortisol secretion.

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