Does Resveratrol Make You Live Longer?
Is the red wine molecule resveratrol responsible for the “French paradox”?
This is the first video in a four-part series on resveratrol. Stay tuned for:
• Does Resveratrol Benefit Our Metabolic Health? ( )
• Resveratrol Tested for Alzheimer’s, Arthritis, and Osteoporosis ( )
• Side Effects of Resveratrol Supplements ( )
What about just drinking red wine? See Do Any Benefits of Alcohol Outweigh the Risks? ( ).
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Waiting for part 2. Until then, will have to resverve judgment.
Those poor mice!
The resveratrol situation has left a sour taste in my mouth.
Suspense as always 🙂
4 parts? some of us don’t have that long…
Disgusting what we do to animals for studies.
I could not agree more. NOTHING hurts me more then any kind of animal abuse or neglect, I’d give my life if it would make it stop.❤
Agreed, disgusted, And ok what’s the solution then? Better CPR Annies with cloned organs and AI?
@WeCelebrateEatingPlants
I wish I knew. One problem is lack of compassion. We all should teach and demonstrate compassion towards animals, especially to our youth.
Im just constantly disappointed by a lot of human behavior
@@WeCelebrateEatingPlants I think more judicious use of animal studies is warranted. Just in my relatively small university there were many studies that simply repeated others (not entirely a bad thing for reproducibility sake) or had very minor, scientifically insignificant changes. The point was to get published, not to contribute to knowledge in any meaningful way. Basically padding their CVs. To be fair, all of them did it to some extent but the rest only wasted time and materials, not lives of living creatures.
@@WeCelebrateEatingPlants better health in the first place. We should not make progress in any field on other peoples/animals lives.
We are here for 20 million years and our planet is billions of years old and will probably have more billion years to go. A Human life is 85 years. It does not matter. It’s nothing compared to what our Universe is.
I like the new background
“What does the human data show? I’ll cover that.. next”
Me – Nooooooo! 😂😂
Great subject!
Processed food manufacturers need to hear from consumers that less ADDED sugar, oil and salt is wanted in their food products.
Why is there so much added sugar in everything, even bread. That’s just crazy
Email, text, tweet or phone your favorite producer of poison and let them know consumers want less salt, oils and sugars in their products.
Let their customer service department know that all the extra added salt, oil and sugar is not necessary or desired and is causing health issues.
As a consumer you have the power to not buy those things.
Or perhaps don’t buy any processed food.
Thank you <3
Can’t we just eat red grapes instead of chugging red wine to “live longer”?
if it is regards resveratrol probably insufficient, but there’s a similar compound called pterostilbene that is far more bioavailable and can be obtained through blueberries.
Yes
We can eat red grapes but if I remember right we get more in red grape juice.
Make sure to wash the grapes with detergent. Nearly managed a vineyard when I was younger they spray grapes around 12 times a year in some parts with antii mold/ yeast sprays and thats before the pesticides are counted.
Do you like blueberries? Yes. Are there any known detrimental effects? No. Eat some blueberries. This isn’t real complicated at one level.
Different topic. This is about a compound found in red grape juice and wine.
They’re super expensive where I live 😢
@@BoogieBoogsForever And blueberries. Most berries, in fact.
It’s red/purple grape juice, no need for alcohol.
Exactly! What happened to people’s common sense? It’s becoming very uncommon these days.
1:58 Wow Japan leading the charge!
I love this channel!
resveratrol showed life extension on fasting mice, obese mice, mice with mitochondrial mutations, senescence accelerated mice, and also regular aging but shorter lived strains of mice too. The artifact regards sirtuin was rebutted with the finding that certain amino acids that can be present in cells can allow resveratrol to activate sirtuins.
For most benefit from resveratrol you need either fasting or other nad boosting techniques and the presence of certain amino acids. Nad has age related decline and this likely affects resveratrol’s effectiveness through sirtuins, since these need nad to function.
Finnish drink a lot of coffee, not sure if French drink as much.
You know what’s sad is that Japan fell for the resveratrol fad too, and now the common wisdom in Japan has become that you need to eat more meat.
peanut skins has lots of resveratrol.