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July 8, 2021: by Bill Sardi
The validity of medical reports in medical journals has recently been challenged, particularly in this era of fake news and COVID-19 scaremongering, as evidenced by the unprecedented retraction of reports published in two major elite medical journals about the coronavirus pandemic.
Turns out, after an America’s Frontline Doctors citizens’ petition, just 152 of 17,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Lisbon, Portugal were confirmed (0.9%)! The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test used to confirm COVID-19 was set at sensitivity of 35 instead of 18, which resulted in 97% of these tests being false positive. A person may have died, and they may have had a positive PCR COVID-19 test, but they didn’t die of COVID-19 because the test was intentionally flawed.
And that’s not mentioning the ruse of telling the American public most of the cases of the flu disappeared in this 2021-lockdown year, as if face masks somehow were selective for the flu but not COVID-19. What’s more, the public bought all this, hook, line and sinker. News reporters should have been digging for that deception. But these are examples of overt trickery, not the ghosting I am writing about here regarding resveratrol.
Another smoke and mirrors hoax played on millions of Americans by self-serving dermatologists who claim the risk for deadly melanoma skin cancer from unabated sun exposure but failed to note that screening of fast-tanning UV-B rays reduces sunshine vitamin D levels which is a risk-reduction factor for that very same type of cancer.
Annual skin checkups were advised, especially for sun-sensitive light-skinned individuals. It turns out, while sunscreens block UV-B radiation and prevent sunburn, they fool sunbathers into staying out longer in the sun and fail to screen-out slow-tanning UV-A solar radiation, and therefore sunscreens have NOT been shown to protect against melanoma.
Misleading reports like these have created a generation of sun-phobic Americans who are paying the price with myriads of vitamin D-deficiency-related health problems. This again, is a covert scheme to rustle up patients for dermatologists, but not the ghosting I am writing about here re: resveratrol.
Similarly, the world’s most often-prescribed drug -– statins, intended to lower circulating cholesterol levels, only reduce the risk for a non-mortal heart attack or stroke in 1 in 140 subjects who take this drug for 5 years, with 20% experiencing unacceptable side effects. About 25 million gullible and/or misinformed patients take a liver-toxic statin drug believing it will prevent them from dying of a sudden drop-dead heart attack when those types of heart attacks occur due to an electrical storm in the heart, not cholesterol buildup in coronary arteries, and are prevented by the provision of electrolyte minerals (magnesium, potassium).
It is in the context of the above deceptive and even fraudulent disease care system, described above, the same people who brought you statin drugs, sunscreens and bogus PCR tests, now brings you COVID-19 vaccines. How could anyone possibly believe in any vaccine given the environment that I write about? And by comparison, just how much hype versus science surrounds resveratrol?
A major medical school report says “resveratrol is all just hype.” Another major university says “swallowing the wine is easier than the hype.”
And with all of the above-mentioned fraud upon Americans NOT being expressed by the paid-off fake news media (the evening network TV news is just an infomercial for drug companies. –$158 million of advertising per month), one wonders if the clueless public will ever catch on?
But it’s not so much about any negative or null studies involving resveratrol, the red wine molecule that a Harvard professor said in 2004 was a mimic of a lifespan-doubling calorie-restricted diet, but what is NOT said about resveratrol.
For example, in 2014 a Johns Hopkins Medical Center report stated resveratrol did not reduce overall mortality over a 9-year period of time in Italy. However, resveratrol as a purified molecule wasn’t even used in the study; red wine that provides a very small amount of resveratrol was.
Investigators failed to note that heavy wine drinkers in the study were more than three times likely to also smoke tobacco than teetotalers.
What was NOT mentioned is that among those Italians who drank the most wine (2.6+ glasses per day providing ~180 milligrams of total polyphenols like resveratrol), were half as likely to experience mental decline!
In past columns read here at ResveratrolNews.com, you have learned about the many miracles of resveratrol. Here are some miracles the news press forgot to tell you about.
Sugar feeds cancer cells. The very way malignancies are detected is by injection of a radioactive dye with sugar that is detected during a PET scan. Tumors consume up to 30 times more sugar than normal tissues. The sugar goes right to the tumor site, exposing the malignancy that cannot be easily detected by x-ray or CAT scans.
An authoritative report published in the Journal CANCER reveals resveratrol inhibits glucose sugar uptake into tumors, enough to inhibit regrowth after chemotherapy and prolong disease-free survival. To date, no oncologists employ resveratrol after chemotherapy even though, outside of leukemia, there have been no major breakthroughs in cancer treatment in recent years.
Internally produced formaldehyde depletes a stress hormone (norepinephrine) released from the adrenal glands. Nor-epinephrine which serves to protect brain tissues and slow or prevent memory decline. Formaldehyde is more commonly known by the public as an embalming agent and is also widely used industrially.
While a person may be exposed to small amounts of formaldehyde in the environment, brain cells produce formaldehyde with advancing age, which in turn depletes norepinephrine, which then results in memory loss. Injection of resveratrol in lab animals reverses formaldehyde formation and restores memory! Even if you are the most ardent fan of resveratrol, you probably never heard of this.
Fish oil is a multi-billion-dollar seller. Omega-3 (EPA-DHA) oil is known as an anti-inflammatory and blood thinner. It is one of the brain’s building blocks.
Now comes the revelation that fish oil when combined with resveratrol, enhances the tumor growth-inhibitory effects of resveratrol. Resveratrol + fish oil favorably alters gut bacteria and can in combination convey biological messages to the vagus nerve to control cancer.
The vagus nerve, the longest nerve in the human body, interfaces with the autonomic nervous system to control the heart, lungs and digestive system. The vagus nerve extends from the cranial nerve through the neck and chest, down to the abdomen.
Resveratrol enhances vagus nerve conduction. To prove this, resveratrol has been shown to have anti-diabetic effects that are negated if the vagus nerve is surgically cut.
The heartbeat is controlled by the autonomic nervous system. Resveratrol, by virtue of its affect upon the autonomic nervous system, reduces an irritable heart after a heart attack.
Arteries automatically widen or constrict to control blood pressure. One of the molecules that helps to widen the internal lumen of arteries is a transient gas called nitric oxide. Resveratrol not only activates nitric oxide, but in the absence of nitric oxide, automatically normalizes blood pressure via the autonomic nervous system.
Nay-sayers continue to demand long-term studies before resveratrol is put into common use. But it is already in wide usage as a nutraceutical and its safety record is impeccable. However, resveratrol food supplements have only been in use for the past two decades.
However, there is long-term data on the health benefits of red wine. Resveratrol-rich red wine was retrospectively revealed to produce unusual immunity from heart attacks in the small town of Roseto, Pennsylvania in the 1970s. At the time, medical doctors were at a loss to explain why.
For men in the Italian community in Roseto, the heart attack rate for males 55-64 years of age was near zero! This went unexplained at the time, but later it was revealed these Italian men imported their beloved unfiltered red wine direct from Italy. It was the red-wine solids at the bottom of the bottle that delivered this life-saving health benefit. Their unfiltered red Italian wine had 30 times more resveratrol than today’s refined wines!
The gold standard for scientific evidence is the placebo-controlled study. However, there are some adverse events like heart attacks that cannot be studied using placebos. It would be unethical to give human beings who are at high risk for a heart attack an inactive placebo. So, animal studies must suffice.
One such animal study examined how well resveratrol works in an animal model of heart attack. In the experiment, the arteries to the heart were squeezed shut to simulate a blood-clot heart attack. Then later oxygen-rich blood circulation was restored, which is when damage occurs to heart muscle (called reperfusion injury).
In this animal model of heart attack, when lab rats were pre-treated with the human equivalent dose of 70 milligrams of resveratrol, lethal heart attacks were reduced from 62.5% to 25.0%. Unfortunately, resveratrol is left to save lab animals’ lives, not humans.
Who would risk giving post-heart attack patients a glass of wine? French doctors did and found two glasses of red wine (providing ~120 mg polyphenols such as resveratrol and quercetin) reduced the risk of a second heart attack by 59% over a 5-year period.
It is still a truth that red wine drinkers live longer than teetotalers. Fortunately, there are red wine pills that eliminate the liver-toxic alcohol.
Which holds the high scientific ground? Statin drugs or red wine pills? Despite all the foot-dragging and baseless precautions over the use of resveratrol in clinical practice, the science behind resveratrol continues to grow and be validated. The false props behind modern medicine keep getting exposed.
Resveratrol is like God. At some time in the future you will probably have to come to some terms with it. But most certainly, don’t ask your physician about resveratrol. It was Upton Sinclair who said: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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