Scientists Uncork Potential Secret Of Red Wine's Health Benefits (Resveratrol)

Science Daily ^ | Aug. 3, 2009 | Science Daily Staff

[SmartInsight]

Scientists from Scotland and Singapore have unraveled a mystery that has perplexed scientists since red wine was first discovered to have health benefits: how does resveratrol control inflammation? New research published in the August 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal, not only explains resveratrol's one-two punch on inflammation, but also show how it - or a derivative -can be used to treat potentially deadly inflammatory disease, such as appendicitis, peritonitis, and systemic sepsis.

[SmartInsight]

Resveratrol is available, without having to drink lots of wine.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Ok

Don’t keep us in suspense. Hint?

[meandog]

Which kind of red wine has the most resveratrol? Cabernet Sauvignon? Shiraz? Merlot? Pinot noir? or, G-d forbid, Tunderbird?

[AnnGora]

...or Riunite Lambrusco?

[swain_forkbeard]

“Resveratrol is available, without having to drink lots of wine.”

There’s alcohol-free beer too.

[Signalman]

Resveratrol is available, without having to drink lots of wine.

Roger that. I take a daily supplement containing 150mg of pure resveratrol, equivalent to drinking a few hundred glasses of red wine (without the alcohol content).

[HerrBlucher]

Wine ugh. My only regret as a Christian is they were not drinking whiskey at the last supper.

[AnnGora]

You’re taking all the fun out of it...

[DariusBane]

Oh, whats wrong with drinking the wine also, and getting the anti microbial properties of the alcohol content and what ever other un discovered compounds that exist?

[RatRipper]

“Resveratrol is available, without having to drink lots of wine.”

I’m agin’ artificial insemination, too.

[Signalman]

Oh, whats wrong with drinking the wine also, and getting the anti microbial properties of the alcohol content and what ever other un discovered compounds that exist?

Not a thing. I also drink red wine, occasionally. But the amount of resveratrol contained in 1 or 2 glasses of red wine is extremely small. You would have to drink hundreds of glasses of wine daily to get the equivalent amount of resveratrol that I get in the daily supplement I take.

[njslim]

I prefer white - a nice Pinot Grigio or Riesling

Wonder if the magic chemical present in white...

[Cyman]

Sounds a lot like the Red Rooster Pills we sold 30 years ago in the pharmacy.

[fish hawk]

Grape juice has the same things. Don’t need the alcohol. (but it sure is a lot nicer.

[cubreporter]

Nothing as far as we are concerned. We have been drinking wine since we were vrey young. Always had it on the dinner table. Still drinking it today.

[OB1kNOb]

"I'll thrink to dhat!"

[mowowie]

What is the supplement?

[Cribb]

Re: Which kind of red wine has the most resveratrol? Cabernet Sauvignon? Shiraz? Merlot? Pinot noir? or, G-d forbid, Tunderbird?

For you senior citizens, don't forget "Pinot More."

[Kenny Bunk]

Real men now drink Malbec, formerly used to fortify weak blends, it has now come on as a strong STRONG contenda from Argentina.

Think Shiraz on steroids.

[SunkenCiv]

...can be used to treat potentially deadly inflammatory disease, such as appendicitis, peritonitis, and systemic sepsis.

Of course, by the 23rd century, only replicated synthahol beverages will be available, so Captain Kirk et al will probably be suffering with abdominal pain.