Comprehensive Library Of Resveratrol News

All roads to adult wellness and longevity lead to resveratrol, but the public isn’t buying it. An estimated 345 producers of dietary supplements have all raced to enter their version of resveratrol pills into the marketplace, but not much more than 100,000 American take these red wine pills. It is inexplicable why resveratrol continues to astound in the research laboratory but physicians are loathe to recommend it and consumers reticent to take this pill that may be the pill that ends all other pills.

The broad biological scope of the red wine molecule resveratrol is becoming legendary. Dr. Dipak Das at the University of Connecticut has documented the large number of genes that resveratrol controls. Resveratrol is beneficial for brain, heart, liver, blood circulation, immunity, cholesterol, blood clotting, etc, etc. It is difficult to address the breadth of resveratrol’s biological action without writing an encyclopedia.

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While online scientific reports published in the last 30 days, registered at Pubmed.gov– the National Library of Medicine’s access page to thousands of scientific journals, were saying the red wine molecule resveratrol (rez-vair-ah-troll) protects heart muscle cells prior to a heart attack, blocks lesions that occur in the back of the eyes in an animal model of diabetes, has the potential to ward off age-related brain disorders and has strong anti-tumor activity, a number of major news media outlets were airing headlines stories which said something to the contrary:

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Nothing new here, we’ve discussed this a couple of times in prior reports, that the road to longevity is not dependent upon a single gene, nor solely upon the Sirtuin1 survival gene, and it doesn’t require 1000 bottles of red wine to produce the same positive biological effects seen in the animal lab. But red-wine resveratrol pills are back in the headlines again today for yet another round of scientific scrutiny

“It turns out, the researchers who brought us to the longevity party may have had the wrong gene target in mind and maybe the elixir for perpetual youth is more of a low-octane mixed drink closer to that found in red wine rather than plain resveratrol juice, but we need to recognize there was no scientific or public interest in longevity pills till 2001 when MIT and Harvard researchers first identified a key gene that is activated when living organisms are placed on a limit calorie diet,” says Bill Sardi, spokesperson for Longevinex®, a leading maker of resveratrol pills.

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