Resveratrol

Resveratrol - What is it? Where is it found? Why is it so good?

Resveratrol is a powerful antioxidant produced by some plants to protect against environmental stresses.
It is found naturally in: red wine, grapes, blueberries, peanuts, and various other plants. It is also found in dietary supplements including: red wine extracts, grape seed pills and extracts AND now…. in KAKADU JUICE, a newly released Aussie juice produced by Kakadu International
(See www.kakadujuice.sandygm2).
It’s official, Kakadu juice contains 100 times more Resveratrol than cabernet sauvignon (the most widely planted and significant among the five dominant varieties of grapes grown in France's Bordeaux region, as well as the most successful red wine produced in California) (www.winepros.org/wine101/grape_profiles/cab-sauv.htm - 15k)

What is Resveratrol?
Resveratrol gained a lot of interest in recent years as a substance which is claimed to produce the so-called ‘French Paradox’. It is a well known and documented fact that French people suffer much less coronary disease than any other nation in the world. This term was produced in the beginning of the 1990's to describe this phenomenon.

Since then, more research confirmed that Resveratrol produced many amazing results. Having very strong antioxidant and cell protective properties Resveratrol was able to prolong longevity of up to 20% in some animals. When given to obese mice it was found to have a host of health effects, including increased life span and protection from diseases of aging such as atherosclerosis, and reduced body fat.

Resveratrol is likely to have an impact on human health comparable to the changes brought by antisepsis, vaccines and antibiotics during the 19th and early 20th centuries. These developments prolonged human lifespan mainly by reducing the death rate among the very young. Resveratrol will affect chronic diseases associated with aging…. including atherosclerosis (heart disease, stroke), diabetes, cancer, brain diseases (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s).


While it has been known for thousands of years that wine is a healthful drink (thus the old Roman saying 'In Vino Sanitas' - In wine there is health), studies concluded that the relatively large amounts of red wine consumed by the French have protected their hearts. From the French Paradox study numerous other studies were launched to attempt to identify compounds responsible for red wine’s apparent health benefits. From these studies the compound that gained by far the largest amount of interest was Resveratrol – AND RIGHTLY SO! Recent studies conclude that:

• Adding resveratrol to the diet of yeast, fruit flies, worms, and a species of fish increased their life spans up to 70%, 29%, 24%, & 50% respectively.
• Resveratrol made fat related deaths drop 31% in obese mice. The resveratrol fed obese mice also performed much better in movement and agility tests than obese mice not fed resveratrol.
• Mice fed resveratrol had 100% more endurance than mice not fed resveratrol (i.e. they were able to run twice as far on a treadmill).
• Resveratrol inhibits blood platelet aggregation that can lead to dangerous clots that can cause heart attacks and strokes.
• Resveratrol is a powerful antioxidant that can help prevent cell damage caused by free radicals (free radicals are unstable atoms caused in part by pollution, sunlight, and our bodies natural burning of fat that can lead to cancer, aging, and brain degeneration)
• Resveratrol has been proven to fight cancer in vitro at all three stages; (1) initiation, (2) promotion, (&) progression.
Resveratrol appears to kill off cancer cells by depolarizing (demagnetizing) mitochondrial bodies within tumor cells. Resveratrol is 100 anti-cancer drugs in one. Resveratrol works in so many ways to block cancer, researchers can’t find a cancer-promotion pathway it doesn’t inhibit. It is virtually non-toxic since, after oral ingestion, it is quickly metabolized by the liver, attached to a detoxification molecule called glucuronate, which renders it harmless, though biologically inactive, at least for a time.