Comprehensive Library Of Resveratrol News

Yep, despite all of the evidence that resveratrol produces far greater and safer biological action at relatively low doses, biologists administered the human equivalent of 8000 milligrams of resveratrol to laboratory mice and found this “miracle molecule” to be ineffective at prolonging the life of these animals.

Why is this so? Are these researchers intentionally attempting to throw resveratrol under the bus? This question gets asked because all of these researchers are certainly aware of the hormesis effect, that a low-dose biological stressor activates key defenses in the body whereas a high-dose toxin is potentially lethal. Some of these researchers have even written about hormesis and resveratrol.

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Worldwide headlines herald a test that may make it possible for cardiologists to predict an impending heart attack. The test may be particularly beneficial for people who have silent (non-painful) heart attacks or heart attacks that cannot be detected by conventional methods.

Compared to healthy adults, four times as many loose cells that slough off the inner lining of arteries, called endothelial cells, were found among heart attack patients who arrived at a hospital emergency room complaining of chest pain. A quicker and more efficient test is now being developed to count circulating endothelial cells in a blood sample.

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With billions of dollars being spent on cancer research there is yet be declared any clearly proven measure to prevent cancer. Nor is there any proven cure once cancer is diagnosed. So the news headline that resveratrol (a red wine molecule) and genistein (a molecule found in soybeans) may be unique and promising anti-cancer agents is striking given all the money that is spent to develop synthetic anti-cancer drugs.

The problem is — I am not talking about the most recent scientific report about these molecules which says resveratrol and genistein are cancer-killing molecules that do not harm the DNA in healthy cells and are far less problematic than existing chemotherapy drugs, but about a similar report issued over a decade ago!

Nearly a decade ago pioneer researcher John M Pezzuto said, in regard to resveratrol, that “preclinical toxicity studies are underway that should be followed by human clinical trials. Imagine, resveratrol blocks cancer at all three stages of development – initiation, growth and spread (metastasis) – something no anti-cancer drug can do, yet there are few if any human clinical trials.

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(March 8, 2012)- Millions of Americans are paying with their lives and their eyesight for the US Food & Drug Administration’s denial that nutriceuticals prevent, treat or cure disease says Bill Sardi, dietary supplement industry executive and health writer, speaking at the annual Nutracon meeting in Anaheim, CA this week.

“Nutriceuticals, a more sophisticated name for dietary supplements, do in fact prevent, treat and cure essential nutrient deficiency diseases such as vitamin D for rickets, vitamin C for scurvy, vitamin B1 for beri beri, as well as many chronic diseases, yet the FDA bans (censors) statements of fact, keeping the public in the dark over the obvious health benefits and cost effectiveness of nutriceuticals,” says Sardi.

“The US FDA maintains a narrow pharmaceutical model for chronic diseases, which are basically treated as drug deficiencies. The FDA maintains dietary supplements must become expensive drugs before statements can be made they cure or treat disease, which is absurd,” says Sardi.

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