Saturday, April 25, 2009

New Nutritional Supplement: Resveratrol and Trans-Resveratrol

Resveratrol is the latest health craze related to anti-aging. For several years now more and more, studies are proving that resveratrol supplements can slow down the aging process. Aging is the process through which human’s bodies deteriorate. Metabolic processes and physiological functions slow. The rate of this slowing can be adjusted through the introduction of antioxidants such as resveratrol.

Studies on resveratrol continue to uncover the very tangible benefits of this element of red wine, which include anti-cancer, anti-aging properties. The short version goes like this: resveratrol activates a gene within living cells that gives that cell more time to repair itself.

From Oprah to 60 Minuets to Barbara Walter, major media outlets have highlighted the studies on resveratrol that point to the anti-aging benefits. These tv shows have interviewed the doctors and researchers that have proven the effects of resveratrol in living cells. These shows have profiled the companies that are producing the resveratrol supplements. Resveratrol is the next antioxidant that has the potential to make longer, healthier lives more possible.

The research into resveratrol suggests that it is a powerful antioxidant that helps to mitigate the damaging effects of free radicals in the body, and also may induce a process through which extended life will be more than a possibility. One effect of the antioxidant resveratrol is on arteries. Research suggests that resveratrol brings down blood pressure by increasing blood flow.

Antioxidants reduce the damage done to cells by free radicals. Diseases like diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's, cancer and Parkinson's can be slowed down by the introduction of antioxidants.

Resveratrol is found in several natural items, such as peanuts, red wine, grapes and blueberries other items. But grapes, in particular Muscdine, have the highest concentration of resveratrol. Though nothing comes close to the amount of resveratrol in supplements. These capsules have been filled with resveratrol. In order to get similar amounts of resveratrol one would need to consumer hundreds of bottles of red wine per day. Of course, this is not a feasible option.

There are many resveratrol supplements that contain this newly discovered antioxidant, resveratrol, which some are calling “The Fountain of Youth” that also includes other important anti-oxidants. The amount of these nutritional supplements is growing all the time and more people are looking to introduce them into their daily intake. While there are quite a few companies that don’t put enough resveratrol or the resveratrol they do create has a low bioavailability. This means that not much resveratrol actually reaches the body.

There are very few elements such as resveratrol. The increasingly positive studies and increasing number of funds available for product development mean that resveratrol has not yet reached its full potential.

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