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Same story as Linda, cold feet in bed in summer. Warm by the second week. I put it in decaf and it tastes like a mocha.
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14 Days of Avena High Flavanol Cocoa for Circulation. Here's What Happened.
I thought it was my age. It wasn't. It was poor circulation and poor oxygen flow. What changed it? It was cocoa.
58, retired school office manager, Dayton, Ohio · September 2026
Reviewed by the Avena Nutrition Desk
For eleven years I walked the reservoir loop after lunch, right outside my house. It's 2.1 miles with a bench halfway. Last October I stopped. My calves would get heavy and hot on the back half, and one afternoon I sat down on that bench and didn't get up for twenty minutes. I never went back.
I told myself that's what 57 feels like. My feet were cold in a warm house and I was worn out by four o'clock. Then at Thanksgiving my sister-in-law, who is a nurse, saw me sitting on my hands to warm them. She said, "That's not age, Linda. That's blood flow." She told me to put a scoop of this cocoa in my coffee for two weeks and keep notes. This is what I wrote down.
Day 1
My hands were warm by lunch.
I made my coffee at 8:15 like I do every morning and stirred in one scoop. It tastes like dark cocoa, not sweet. I honestly forgot about it. Around noon I noticed my hands. They were warm and pink for the first time in about a year. I've had cold, white fingers for so long I stopped paying attention to them. I told myself it could be the coffee and wrote it down anyway: warm hands at 12, check again tomorrow.
Day 7
No more afternoon nap.
Same routine all week. Coffee at 8:15, one scoop, then whatever the day was. My hands were warm by lunch every day, and by Day 5 my feet were warm before I got out of bed. The bigger thing was the afternoons. The three o'clock slump that used to put me in a chair for the rest of the day just stopped coming. So on Day 7, after lunch, I put on my shoes and did the loop. Slowly. All of it, and I didn't need the bench. My husband took the picture. I wrote down: one week, no nap, walked the loop.
What I'm taking
Avena High Flavanol Cocoa
1,200 mg cocoa flavanols per scoop (600 mg epicatechin)
One scoop in my morning coffee, 8 a.m.
0 sugar · 25 scoops per bottle
Try it for 30 days →Day 14
My blood pressure numbers settled.
Coffee and one scoop at 8:15, same as every day for two weeks. Then I picked up my prescriptions, and I sat down at the blood pressure machine at the pharmacy like I do every month. In August it read 142 over 91. Today it read 128 over 82. The pharmacist asked what had changed. I told her: one scoop of cocoa in my coffee, and I'd started walking again. That same week I carried my grandson up the fourteen stairs at my daughter's house without stopping. My husband took this one at the pharmacy, because I'd told him the point of the two weeks was proof.
What actually worked, and what it costs
One bottle is 25 scoops for $39.99, about $1.60 a morning, which is less than the fish oil and cayenne I was buying together. I'm on the eight-bottle bundle now, which works out to $20 a bottle, because I am not going back to the socks. And there's a 30-day money-back promise, which is the only reason I let myself order the first bottle.
If your feet are cold in a warm room right now, that's blood flow, not age. I wish someone had told me before I gave up the walk.
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Dennis W. ✓ Verified Buyer
Skeptical, 66, bought one bottle to prove my wife wrong. Hands warm on the steering wheel by day 3. On the four-pack now.
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Marlene K. ✓ Verified Buyer
I'd tried the cayenne and fish oil too. This is the first thing that changed the mornings. Bitter on its own, fine in coffee.
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Ray T. ✓ Verified Buyer
Took me closer to three weeks than two to notice the stairs. Worth it. Wish the bottle were bigger.
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Patricia S. ✓ Verified Buyer
Back on my morning walk after a year off. No sugar, one ingredient, that's why I picked it.
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