Do Resveratrol Supplements Work For Anti-Aging?
Resveratrol supplements are antioxidant extracted from the skins of grapes and in the roots of the Japanese Knotweed plant. Antioxidants are known to help reduce and even prevent the formation of destructive free radical chemicals in your body, which can attack healthy cells and damage membranes. These attacks from the free radicals ultimately leads to the natural process we know as aging. Resveratrol supplements contain strong antioxidants that may protect the body by ending the free radical chain reaction and provide life prolonging effects through cell renewal.
The antioxidant compound found in resveratrol has been proposed as an explanation for the low incidence of cardiovascular disease in wine-drinking southern European countries. It has also been shown to possess anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activity in cell-based experiments, including tests for its ability to treat cancer and oral herpes.
The truth is that consensus from many doctors suggests that intake of resveratrol supplements is unlikely to have any effect on preventing most cancers. Published human studies involving these supplements are lacking. The only so-called evidence of benefits on humans are population studies of red wine drinkers who obtain resveratrol from their favorite beverage.
Harvard researchers have continually indicated most dietary resveratrol supplements are useless. Their knock on these supplements is that the pills do not preserve the antioxidants well in pill form, but instead the pills essentially are as good as powdered red grapes as the resveratrol oxidizes. Imagine as you bite into an apple, without the protection of its skin, the part of the apple which you bit into begins to oxidize immediately and turns brown. That’s the argument against taking resveratrol supplements, that the benefits of resvestrol in grapes are not preserved after they are extracted from the grapes.
A new resveratrol supplement, Longevinex, claims to encapsulate resveratrol using Capsugel’s airtight capsule, Licap, to preserve the resveratrol the way it is found in a corked bottle of wine, this stabilized form of resvestrol supplement could just be the answer to its critics.
Taking these supplements definitely shows promise for its health benefits. Research has demonstrated that the test results are undoubtedly effective in laboratory preparations, and it seems that the only missing link is to preserve the resveratrol in its natural form in the supplements before it oxidizes. And who knows, one day we could be taking these supplements the same way we take daily Vitamin C or flaxseed oil pills.
