Resveratrol, The Fountain of Youth? Quite Possibly!

It has long been somewhat of a mystery as to why the French could eat a high fat, high calorie diet and have a lower incidence of heart disease and live long healthy lives. It was known that wine had something to do with it but over the last couple of years, compliments of Dr Sinclair of the Harvard Medical Center and Rafael De Cabo Phd., they may have isolated the properties that answer the mystery.

The key is resveratrol in the fermented skins of the red wine grape, especially grapes that come from cooler climates.

There have been published papers on the fact that people (or animals for that matter) who have calorie restricted diets live longer.

Resveratrol does many things for the body including fooling the body into thinking it is calorie restricted. Hence, the French eating high calorie, high fat diets (with wine) may live longer with less incidence of heart disease.

If you are reading this article, you have probably spent a lot of time researching ways to stay young, improve your looks, and/or erase lines and wrinkles from your skin. Everyone wants to look younger or retain the looks that they have.

The cosmetic industry is a multi-billion dollar business that tries to sell people everything from drugstore skincare brands that might cost a few dollars to expensive creams and treatments sold at exclusive department stores that will put a serious dent in your wallet. In fact, in recent years the focus on chemical treatments like Botox and expensive and dangerous plastic surgeries has skyrocketed. These days, it’s hard to find someone who hasn’t considered running up their credit card at a cosmetic counter or contemplated going under the knife.

The great news is you don’t need to worry about those things anymore.

There have been significant scientific breakthroughs about a product called Resveratrol. Resveratrol was originally discovered as a component of red wine, but when taken a step further, is found in nature in the skin, bark, twigs, and leaves of grapes.

It is an unavoidable truth that we will all start to grow old and with old age we will all suffer the effects to some degree. One of these effects comes in the form of wrinkles. Basically aging is the process in which our bodies start to deteriorate. It means our metabolic processes and physiological functions start to slow down. However there are now a number of anti aging products on the market that claim to be able to slow down the process of aging by helping to stop the deterioration of our bodies and the onset of wrinkles, one of these products is known as resveratrol.

There has been and continues to be a lot of research carried out revolving around resveratrol, which demonstrates that it could actually be one of the most powerful antioxidants that has ever been found. So what makes this product so good? Well let’s start with where it comes from. It originates from several different types of plants including the Japanese knotweed. On top of this it is also found within a number of foods such as peanuts, blueberries, lingon berries, sparkleberries, cranberries, deer berries, partridge-berries, and bilberries. However out of all the places it is found it is the most present within the skin of grapes that go on to be used to make red wine.

When red wine is produced it is said that resveratrol is plentiful within it; however there are now also a lot of resveratrol supplements on the market that contain a very high concentration of resveratrol, higher than what is found within red wine. Basically in order for you to receive the same amount of it that you would get in supplement form it would require you to drink 1,000 bottles of wine a day, something that is pretty much impossible and should never be attempted.