| It has long been somewhat of a mystery as to why | | | | group a high fat, high calorie diet with resveratrol. |
| the French could eat a high fat, high calorie diet and | | | | The 2nd group of high fat, high calories soon |
| have a lower incidence of heart disease and live long | | | | developed symptoms of heart disease and diabetes |
| healthy lives. It was known that wine had something | | | | and shortened lifespan. The 3rd group with high fat, |
| to do with it but over the last couple of years, | | | | high calories and resveratrol had no symptoms of |
| compliments of Dr Sinclair of the Harvard Medical | | | | heart disease or diabetes and they were much more |
| Center and Rafael De Cabo Phd., they may have | | | | active than the second group even later in life. The |
| isolated the properties that answer the mystery. | | | | third group of mice also lived up to 30% longer. (The |
| The key is resveratrol in the fermented skins of the | | | | standard diet mice faired as well as the 3rd group) |
| red wine grape, especially grapes that come from | | | | - In another study in April of 2008, patients who |
| cooler climates. | | | | were treated with resveratrol before receiving |
| There have been published papers on the fact that | | | | radiation treatments, found that pancreatic cancer |
| people (or animals for that matter) who have calorie | | | | cells would die off during radiation sessions. This is |
| restricted diets live longer. | | | | very encouraging because pancreatic cancer can be |
| Resveratrol does many things for the body including | | | | very difficult to treat. |
| fooling the body into thinking it is calorie restricted. | | | | - Now, very interesting, what does resveratrol have |
| Hence, the French eating high calorie, high fat diets | | | | in common with Viagra? They both open restricted |
| (with wine) may live longer with less incidence of | | | | blood flow. Viagra is limited to small blood vessels but |
| heart disease. | | | | reseveratrol opens both small blood vessels and main |
| Here is some interesting information on various | | | | arteries. The circulation benefits of resveratrol may |
| studies on resveratrol and the promising results. | | | | outperform Viagra. |
| - According to a study done by the Dept. of Science | | | | - The reasoning behind resevratrol being hailed as the |
| and Technology at the Ohio State University in 1997, | | | | potential fountain of youth is because taking |
| resveratrol was able at a cellular level to inhibit cancer | | | | resveratrol regularly has been demonstrated to |
| cells from dividing. It also demonstrated that the | | | | reduce and or reverse DNA mishaps. Aging comes |
| estrogenic activity was able to prevent | | | | about when cells can no longer replicate cell DNA and |
| post-menopausal bone loss. | | | | thus begins the gradual decline of the body. |
| - The Dept of Microbiology-Immunology NE Ohio | | | | Resveratrol stimulates what is called the longevity |
| University, College of Medicine, successfully treated | | | | gene (caloric restricted diets) and it has been |
| hairless mice that had herpes lesions. Repeated tests | | | | demonstrated that resveratrol reduces DNA mishaps |
| with topical resveratrol had the same results. In the | | | | by as much as a whopping 60%! Even if it was 30% |
| same year it was also discovered that topical | | | | that would be impressive! |
| reseveratrol reduced skin cancer by as much as | | | | There is still much studying to be done on |
| 98%. | | | | resveratrol, especially on humans but the research so |
| - In Nov. of 2006, Dr Sinclair and Rafael De Cabo, did | | | | far has been more than promising. A glass of wine a |
| a study on middle aged mice and the findings were | | | | day can be beneficial but good quality, pure |
| extremely encouraging. The mice were divided into 3 | | | | resveratrol supplements have the potential for great |
| groups; the 1st group was given a standard diet., the | | | | health benefits! |
| 2nd group a high fat, high calorie diet, and the 3rd | | | | |