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Fountain of Youth: Resveratrol Might Be Close!

In recent months, we’ve heard a lot about the red wine ingredient resveratrol. It’s been mentioned as a treatment for everything from heart disease to osteoarthritis to cancer. In fact, in January 2009, the CBS TV News program 60 Minutes interviewed researchers who proclaimed a modern-day fountain of youth “ resveratrol.
The mythical fountain of youth [...]

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For Heart Disease, Resveratrol May Provide Antioxidant Protection

For almost two decades, the benefits of resveratrol and similar phytochemicals have been the focus of much attention from the scientific community. While dark-colored fruits like blueberries, strawberries, and pomegranates contain resveratrol, red- and purple-skinned grapes are especially rich in the chemical. In fact, the main biologically active and well-characterized constituent from (sic.) the grape [...]

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New Tests on Resveratrol: Can It Slow Aging?

To slow the aging process and add years to human life has been a goal of many biological scientists. New tests on resveratrol, along with several similar chemicals, were recently announced in the Science Times section of The New York Times (August 17, 2009) . The article by Nicholas Wade stated that among a group [...]

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Anti Aging: Resveratrol May Help

In the early years of the 21st century, Dr. David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School and Christoph Westphal, a venture capitalist, co-founded Sirtris Pharmaceuticals to continue Sinclair’s research on anti aging resveratrol effects. Sinclair had discovered that the red wine ingredient resveratrol seemed to have life-extending powers in mice. This might explain, he thought, the [...]

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