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Benefits of Resveratrol and How it Impacts the Aging Process
How this polyphenol can activate Genes in your cells for a longer healthier life.
Although chronological aging is inevitable, unlocking the secrets to "biological" aging is perhaps the ultimate scientific quest. Understanding the way cells age, as well as how aging impacts their function, reproduction, and death, may help us to better understand the causes and perhaps the solutions for key age-related diseases and conditions.
Cellular Aging
How we age on a cellular level, it is the genes inside of your cells that determines how fast you age.
Although chronological aging is inevitable, unlocking the secrets to "biological" aging is perhaps the ultimate scientific quest. Understanding the way cells age, as well as how aging impacts their function, reproduction, and death, may help us to better understand the causes and perhaps the solutions for key age-related diseases and conditions.
Cellular Aging
How we age on a cellular level, it is the Genes inside of your cells that determines how fast you age. Resveratrol can turn on the longevity genes (sirtuins) inside our cells and help us live longer healthier lives.
What is Resveratrol? In mammals, there is a growing evidence that resveratrol can prevent or delay the onset of cancer, heart disease, ischemic and chemically induced injuries, diabetes, pathological inflammation and viral infection. - Joseph A. Baur and David Sinclair, Harvard University, 2006.
It's a phytoalexin produced naturally by several plants when under attack by pathogens such as bacteria or fungi. Several experiments suggest that it triggers mechanisms that counteract aging-related effects in animals.
Resveratrol and the studies done on it are currently the topic of numerous animal and human test into its effect to extend life, so far the tests on yeast cells, fruit flies, nematode worms, and short-lived fish has extended there life span. A calorie restricted diet can extend life, in animal experiments with monkeys the calorie restricted diet made them look younger and act younger and resveratrol can mimic the longevity effects of a calorie restricted diet.
Can It Help Humans
Test on humans is to hard because of the life span of humans is to long to get accurate results. In mouse and rat experiments, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, blood-sugar-lowering and other beneficial cardiovascular effects of resveratrol have been reported.
Resveratrol Sources
What is Resveratrol? It's a polyphenol found in the skin of red grapes especially muscadine grapes and is a constituent of red wine it is also found in large amounts in Japanese knotweed.
