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Video: Resveratrol May Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease

admin — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:02:16 +0000

Research shows that resveratrol, found in red wine, actually lowers the amount of amyloid-beta peptides which can cause Alzheimer’s Disease. This may also somehow explain the evidence showing the link between lower leves of dementia and red wine drinkers.

Levels of amyloid-beta in cells treated with resveratrol were much lower than those in cells which were not treated with resveratrol. Researchers are now trying to work out the mechanism in which resveratrol actually works in an attempt to develop new pharmaceuticals which act on the same mechanisms to that of resveratrol.

See the video of resveratrol researchers below.

Resveratrol Can Help With Muscular Endurance

admin — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:48:08 +0000

A study from the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cell Biology shows that resveratrol, a compound in grapes and red wine can actually improve muscular endurance and the effectiveness of resveratrol may actually lead to athletes one day taking it for sports performance.

Mice who were fed a high fat diet along with daily resveratrol supplements were only 20% heavier than control mice compared to a huge 60% increase in weight for the mice on the high fat diet without resveratrol.

Furthermore, mice given resveratrol also had increased an increased level of endurance even after taking into account differences in weight. The resveratrol mice were able to run 2 times further on the treadmill compared to other mice with the same diet and no resveratrol supplementation.

Researchers believe that resveratrol boosts muscle endurance by increasing the energy creating components in the cell furnace, which is called the mitochondria.

This research has opened up many intriguing questions regarding resveratrol including diabetes and weight loss as well as perhaps preventing muscle wasting in the elderly. Earlier resveratrol studies have also shown that it can increase the lifespan of many different animals.

New Resveratrol Study Shows Effectiveness Against Cancer

admin — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:24:50 +0000

A new study from the U.S.A has shown that drinking between one and two glasses of red wine could help reduce the risk of getting prostate cancer. In the August edition of the Journal of Carcinogenesis, researchers from the University of Alabama discovered that resveratrol, a component of red wine, helped decrease the risk of developing the prostate cancer.

Resveratrol, which has potent antioxidant and anti-cancer effects on the body was fed to mice for 7 months in their food and showed an 87% decrease in the risk of developing prostate cancer. Other mice which were also fed resveratrol, but developed a lesser form of prostate tumor, had a 48% greater chance of the cancer growth slowing or being stopped compared to other mice who did not ingest resveratrol.

This study is just one of many studies into resveratrol which has shown the exceptional benefits of resveratrol consumption. Another study by the University of Alabama in Birmingham from 2006 showed that female mice which were given resveratrol had a sizeable reduction in the risk of breast cancers and tumors.

New research is now being conducted on the benefits of human consumption of resveratrol in regards to cancer as well as the amount of resveratrol required for its remarkable benefits as the amount of resveratrol given to the mice in this study was equivalent to a human consuming about one bottle of red wine per day. However, this research on resveratrol is quite exciting for researchers and will only promote resveratrol as a superfood.

Video: Resveratrol Promotes Pathways For Clearing Of Amyloid Plaques

admin — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:13:32 +0000

A study from the Journal of Biological Chemistry, researchers have suggested that resveratrol seems to promotes a pathway that facilitates the clearing of the building block for plaque formation which often build up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients

The research team studied several different antioxidants found in red wine by adding them to amyloid. Many of the antioxidants had no effect, however resveratrol did in fact clear the amyloid away. The co-author of the study hoped that resveratrol could be used to model new drugs that could hopefully treat Alzheimer’s Disease