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Why is there so much hocus pocus about Resveratrol. I try to understand the ingredients and thepotency and I am completely confused. Why is this so confusing and how can I get some information to b.. |
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Why is there so much hocus pocus about Resveratrol. I try to understand the ingredients and thepotency and I am completely confused. Why is this so confusing and how can I get some information to better understand it. Answer:Resveratrol, a natural antioxidant from the skin of grapes, is found mainly in red wine. Scientists began to study it when they noticed that some diseases are more rare in France and Italy where people routinely drink red wine. It has been pretty well covered by Healthnotes, which is a trusted news service that provides health and supplement information. The article is available on the Vitacost site at: http://www.vitacost.com/healthnotes/supp... There are other useful articles on the subject there, so look around the site and see if you can find out what you'd like to know. I believe that all the various phytochemicals and antioxidants are useful, and that they have similar but not identical functions in the body, so I take several of them, including resveratrol. The nature of the available research makes it difficult to determine what the exact dosage should be - it seems likely to me that people are consuming too little of all of them (lutein, lycopene, etc.,) so I think it's good to supplement those things, but I also think everyone should eat as many as possible of the foods that contain these substances - those foods are most easily identified by their strong colors; purple and red (berries, red wine), yellow and orange (carrots, squash, melons, citrus), and deep green (spinach, parsley, kale, broccoli). To get resveratrol you have to drink red wine (or perhaps organic grape juice), but there are some obvious limitations on how much red wine anyone should drink, so resveratrol capsules solve that problem. I have no connection to or interest in the Vitacost company, but it was started by a doctor (who writes about the products and the medical studies supporting their uses and dosages), and that information has been very useful to me. Hope it helps you. 'Compressed chemicals' are deliberately labeled this way. Why take a drug when a food could do the same thing? Drugs are dangerous and foods, as supplements, are not! http://www.mangosteen101.co.uk http://www.goxanthones.com http://www.xango.com |
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