Longevity interests a lot of people who are not quite ready to give up their lives, just yet, and who look to sound alternatives to culturally conceived eating patterns and “health care.”
The benefits of imbibing wine have been bragged about for a while and are thought, by by quite a few people, to be the reason why the French can get away with eating a high fat diet while enjoying a low rate of heart disease.
A French research team, a few years ago, also found that men who on a regular basis consumed at least two glasses of wine daily were 50 percent less likely than non-drinkers to suffer a second heart attack.
Previous studies with yeast, a miniscule species of worm, and fruit flies have proven that resveratrol — a polyphenol antioxidant found in grapes, particularly red grapes, and particularly pinot noir grapes which are grown in northern latitudes and used in wines coming from New York, Washington, and Oregon — is a compound which is life-extending.
In a recent study from Italy, resveratrol has been used to increase the life span of a short-lived breed of tropical fish by more than 50%. Not only did fish given resveratrol in their food live longer than the control group, they stayed livelier as they aged and displayed better remembering in stimulus/response tests. And the neurons in their brains didn’t decay as quickly when they died and were dissected.
Resveratrol, an organic compound contained in the skins of grapes that protects them from disease, is extracted from grapes by the wine devising process. The wine becomes a preservative for the resveratrol and prevents its oxidation.
This is the reason why drinking grape juice or eating raisins doesn’t have the exactfinal result; the resveratrol has neither been preserved or extracted. It’s also been shown that resveratrol in food supplements oxidizes upon exposure to air and loses its strength.
Red wine may genuinely be a “wondrous drug!”
Other studies have shown that wine, especially red wine, can help prevent colds, increase the levels of HDL (good) cholesterol, lower the risk of Alzheimer’s, reduce the size and number of fat cells in the body, lower the risk of prostate cancer, and has anti-inflammatory properties to boot.
Drug companies are trying to copy Red Wine that it may truly be a “wondrous drug!”, but might not be able to preserve it’s health-preserving benefits. In any case, resveratrol is freely available in red wine and can not be patented.
In Summary Red wine may actually be a “wondrous drug!” Not only has the resveratrol wine contains so far been proven to lengthen the life of yeast, worms, flies, and fish, other studies have shown that wine, especially red wine, can help prevent colds, increase the levels of HDL (good) cholesterol, lower the risk of Alzheimer’s, lower the size and number of fat cells in the body, reduce the risk of prostate cancer, and has anti-inflammatory properties to boot.