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Health authorities now warn 29 million American adults they should cease taking aspirin tablets for heart health, given there are no benefits and only serious side effects such as bleeding gastric ulcers and brain hemorrhages, not to mention anemia, heartburn, vitamin C depletion and death.  Resveratrol, the red wine molecule, is suggested as a replacement as it:

1. thins the blood and inhibits clotting in coronary arteries like aspirin is alleged to do;
2. lowers inflammation as a Cox and TNF inhibitor;
3. can be used when aspirin resistance sets in,
4. helps to dilate (widen) blood vessels to improve circulation;
5. and pre-conditions heart muscle to produce intracellular antioxidant enzymes (glutathione, catalase, SOD) that protect the heart PRIOR to a heart attack, called cardiac pre-conditioning.

The use of resveratrol instead of aspirin was proposed almost a decade ago.  Dr. Nate Lebowitz, non-invasive cardiologist, Ft. Lee, New Jersey, then said aspirin has a limited effect whereas resveratrol exhibits a profound effect seen in his patients, none of whom have had a heart attack since he began placing his patients on red wine pills over a decade ago.

The only tested resveratrol pill to prevent heart attacks in laboratory animals, Longevinex®, has been demonstrated to limit the size of an intentionally induced heart attack better than plain resveratrol.  Hundreds of millions more cardiomyocyte heart muscle fibers are spared damage when Longevinex is employed instead of aspirin in the animal lab.  Of course, a human study would be ethically out of the question, so animal studies will have to suffice.

Narrowing of carotid artery after invasive re-opening with a balloon, without and with resveratrol

 

Source: PLoS One Vol. 5, p. e15705, 2010

Longevinex® also provides vitamin D which was found to profoundly reduce heart muscle damage in combination with resveratrol in an animal lab experiment published in 2016.  Amazingly, resveratrol has been demonstrated to reduce micro-hemorrhages in the brain despite high blood pressure, and improves the “sixth vital sign” (walking speed).