On your food science show you claim that some of chocolate’s effects are due to anandamide and further, that it contains compounds that prevent anandamide breakdown. Wikipedia contradicts this:

“Anandamide was reported to be present in chocolate[6] in small quantitities that were not be assumed to have pharmacological or psychoactive effects.[7] However, a later study failed to repeat these findings and did not detect anandamide in chocolate.[8]”

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anandamide

Can I ask where you got your information?

In a sense, he’s throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Take Chinese medicine as example. There is a wealth of carefully researched medicines available, which are mainly written down in Chinese.

If Western science has one major weak point, it’s the habit of not accepting anything that hasn’t been tested through modern western methods, and then not doing it because it’s already part of Eastern medicine.

I’m all for science, but the same way that people before Newton didn’t float; I will not be blind for the possibilities of things that just haven’t been researched yet.