Comprehensive Library Of Resveratrol News

It’s too enticing to resist. The offer has just arrived in your email — a free trial sample of a red wine pill that promises to extend human life, a pill that was endorsed by “Dr. Oz,” seen on Oprah and CBS’ 60 Minutes, and researched by leading universities and shown to cure cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, control weight and eradicate wrinkles. And it’s free!

The cunning marketing program for ResV has overtaken every other brand of red wine resveratrol (rez-vair-aw-trawl) on the market. It’s an overnight sensation. Bloggers have piled on to gain affiliate fees and generate Google click fees so now there is an internet army of spammers and bloggers generating millions of dollars of sales per month, and more piling on daily.

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For the first time researchers have demonstrated that relatively low doses of the red wine molecule resveratrol (rsz-vair-ah-trawl) reverse chemically-induced gastric ulcers in animals.  Higher-doses of resveratrol delayed but did not prevent or reverse tissue damage.

Researchers induced gastric ulcers in laboratory animals by administering high doses of indomethacin, an anti-inflammatory drug known to irritate the gastric mucus lining.  Mice were given resveratrol orally at different doses.  The results were as follows:

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Red Wine Molecules More Promising Than Stem Cell Technology

Currently, heart transplantation is the only reliable means of replacing lost muscle tissue following a heart attack but is limited by the number of donors and cost.  Because heart muscle cells are not rapidly replaced following a heart attack, researchers have been investigating stem cell technology in hopes of replacing damaged cells.  [Transplantation Review (Orlando). 2009 Jan; 23(1):53-68]

Donor cell transplants emerge as a promising strategy to regenerate diseased heart muscle cells (called cardiomyocytes).  However, stem cell therapy has produced inconclusive and contradictory results.  [Current Opinion Organ Transplantation 2009 Feb;14(1):79-84]  There are many drawbacks and hurdles, including high cost, that need to be overcome before stem cell therapy for the heart can be offered in the clinic.  [BioDrugs 2008; 22(6):361-74]

Now, for the first time, researchers have demonstrated that heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) are slowly replaced over time, about 1% per year, not fast enough to restore healthy function to the heart following a heart attack, but sufficient to demonstrate regenerative potential towards the introduction of several drug combination products.

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Oprah Winfrey Laboratories blesses resveratrol and Americans rush to buy red wine pills. But will anybody live any longer?

The luster surrounding the red wine molecule resveratrol isn’t fading, but the growing body of pseudoscience being created by online hucksters, as well as exaggerations by scientists who have a commercial interest in a resveratrol-like drug, casts a pall over the excitement of a maybe-it’s-real-this-time anti-aging pill.

Few Americans who go online have escaped the barrage of spam advertising for one particular brand of resveratrol (rez-vair-ah-trawl) pills, which has within the past month or two become the leading brand by sales volume.

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