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This is the second, recent study to win attention for the benefits of resevatrol for the prevention of aging-related problems. Reservatrol confers impressive benefits, based on these two findings.

One of study’s authors, Rafael de Cabo, warns that it is premature to add reservatrol supplement to your diet. No one knows how the compound may interact with existing medicines. No one knows, in humans, what the recommended amount might be.

That should be the next study done, don’t you think?

Reuters

“A compound in red wine may ward off a variety of medical conditions related to aging, providing heart benefits, stronger bones and preventing eye cataracts, researchers said on Thursday.

“The study, involving mice fed a diet supplemented with resveratrol starting in their equivalent of middle age, is the latest to raise hope that the compound or drugs based on it may improve the health of people.

“Most of mice given resveratrol did not live longer than other mice but were far more healthy in several important measures, according to the study published in the journal Cell Metabolism.

“The good news is we can increase health. I think that’s more important than increasing life span,” David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School, who led the study along with Rafael de Cabo of the U.S. government’s National Institute on Aging, said in a telephone interview.” (Emphasis added)

Source: Reuters News Service, July 3, 2008

Citation: Cell Metabolism, Online, July 3, 2008 (No other information provided)