| The Fountain of Youth at the Bottom of a Wine Bottle? Not really... According to Kaeberlein, it would take over 300 glasses of wine per day to equal the amount of resveratrol fed to the obese mice in this study. Sorry ;-) | |
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Researchers have found that resveratrol--a molecule found in the skin of red grapes and therefore in red wine--can prolong the life span of obese mice. They report their findings in today's advanced online edition of Nature. Resveratrol has been touted as an antiaging therapy since 2003, when Robert Sinclair, a Harvard Medical School pathologist and co-author of the current study, found that the life span of yeast could be extended by up to 60 percent when treated with the molecule. "There are several other compounds that are undergoing testing," Kaeberlein notes, explaining that the NIA is looking at about a dozen other antiaging treatments. "If resveratrol turns out not to be as wonderful as we all hope it will, it's not the last hope." Even if resveratrol does turn out to be a miracle drug, a wine glass would probably not be the preferred delivery method. Full read here at Scientific American |
