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Resveratrol Supplements: What to Look For in Resveratrol Anti-Aging Supplements |
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It has actually been more than decades since scientists first began looking at the possible health benefits of resveratrol, but since the ingredient only began to appear in news stories over the last couple of years everyone is convinced it is some kind of new discovery. Resveratrol however, has been the subject of much research in order to discover what its potential benefits to the human body are. It has been discovered that the benefits of resveratrol are quite extensive. For one thing it decreases the activity of inflammatory cytokines, which indicates that it contains some sort of mechanism for reducing the mortality rate in from cardiovascular disease, and cancer. There is also a wealth of other ailments that this polyphenol is helpful in treating. You may have heard the reports about heart disease and cancer, but it seems that very few people know that resveratrol has also been found to be successful in inhibiting the replication of the herpes simplex virus. It also appears that it may be at least somewhat helpful in lowering your LDL cholesterol, and increasing the HDL cholesterol that you have. |
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The Hidden Health Benefits of Red Wine - Resveratrol |
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There has been a long standing debate on the health benefits of consuming moderate amounts of alcohol. Specifically in regards to red wine, it may not be the alcohol that is gaining so much attention as the resveratrol that is in the red wine.
While resveratrol can be found in plants such as peanuts, mulberries, eucalyptus, spruce, and lily, resveratrol is most abundant in grapes used to make wine. Vitis vinifera, muscadine, and labrusca grapes have the most abundant natural sources of resveratrol. Resveratrol can be found in the vines, roots, stalks, and seeds of the plants, but the highest concentration is found in the skins.
The amount of resveratrol contained in the wine is related to the length of time the grape skins are present during the fermentation process. That's why the concentration of reseveratrol is much higher in red wine than in white wine where the juice is pressed from the grapes and the skins are removed early in the wine making process. Since grape juice is not a fermented beverage it is not a significant source of resveratrol. |
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Resveratrol And Cancer-Could This Wonder Nutrient Really Save Lives? |
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It seems like every 50 years or so a new substance is discovered that rocks the scientific community and so has the link between resveratrol and cancer prevention been proven?
The short answer is an overwhelming yes! It is being hailed as one of the most important nutritional discoveries of modern time.
For many years people wondered at the "French Paradox," whereby the French have a similar high fat diet to Americans and smoke heavily, but have a far lower instance of cancer and heart disease.
This was found to be down to the fact that they drink a lot of red wine, which contains resveratrol and cancer experts suddenly became very excited.
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Resveratrol, The Fountain of Youth? Quite Possibly! |
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It has long been somewhat of a mystery as to why the French could eat a high fat, high calorie diet and have a lower incidence of heart disease and live long healthy lives. It was known that wine had something to do with it but over the last couple of years, compliments of Dr Sinclair of the Harvard Medical Center and Rafael De Cabo Phd., they may have isolated the properties that answer the mystery.
The key is resveratrol in the fermented skins of the red wine grape, especially grapes that come from cooler climates.
There have been published papers on the fact that people (or animals for that matter) who have calorie restricted diets live longer.
Resveratrol does many things for the body including fooling the body into thinking it is calorie restricted. Hence, the French eating high calorie, high fat diets (with wine) may live longer with less incidence of heart disease.
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Does Resveratrol in Red Wine Solve the French Paradox? |
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Resveratrol is a polyphenol type flavonoid currently exciting great interest as a potential boon to health. Like other flavonoids and polyphenols, it is a very useful anti-oxidant in its own right, but resveratrol has attracted particular attention as a potential solution to the so-called "French Paradox".
This is the term used to describe the phenomenon, which has long been a puzzle to medical science, by which rates of cardiovascular disease in France have remained low relative to those in the rest of the developed world, despite the widespread national consumption of a diet high in animal fat and cholesterol, and a firmly entrenched tobacco habit. Of course France also enjoys many of the benefits of the so-called Mediterranean diet through its high intake of fresh fruit and vegetables, oily fish and olive oil, but there are good reasons to think that the consumption of red wine may be the real explanation of the apparent paradox. |
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