Resveratrol Pro –A healthy addition to your nutrition armoury

Resveratrol is one of nature’s wonder drugs. It is a naturally occurring antibiotic produced by a number of different plants in response to attack by pathogens such as bacteria and fungus. In particular, Resveratrol is found in the skin of red grapes and as such is found in concentrated quantities in red wine. This may go a long way to explaining what is often called “the French Paradox” i.e. how is that the French generally eat a diet high in fats and yet as a nation suffer from lower rates of heart disease than Americans? The regular consumption of Resveratrol containing red wine by the French could be the key.

Resveratrol is known to have a number of important health benefits in terms of stimulating and regenerating nerve cells, promoting cardio vascular health, helping in the fight against cancer, and, perhaps most excitingly, life extension.

Regeneration

Scientists have demonstrated that Resveratrol can trigger a seven-fold increase in the activity and effectiveness of an enzyme called mapkinase. Mapkinase works to stimulate and regenerate nerve cells. This has significant implications in relation to neurodegenerative diseases such Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s as Resveratrol may be able to help stave off their development.

Cardio Vascular

With regard to cardio vascular health, not only does Resveratrol have the ability to increase levels of HDL cholesterol (often referred to as “the good cholesterol”) but it also helps to reduce platelet aggregation (the stickiness of platelets) and free radical damage to the linings of blood vessels. Healthy blood flow is stimulated as a result.

Anti-Cancer

While the blood improving properties of Resveratrol are obviously important when it comes to protection against cardiovascular disease, heart attack and stroke, they also have a role to play in the fight against cancer by helping to inhibit tumour initiation and promotion, and preventing the migration of cancer cells.

Resveratrol Pro is more than just Resveratrol. It also contains polyphenols, quercetin, Vitamin E and EGCG. Polyphenols and quercetin are additional grape extracts and EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) is found in green tea. This unique combination of Resveratrol together with these additional elements enables Resveratrol Pro to provide you with a powerful ally in the fight against cancer. In fact, research suggests that the combination of Resveratrol, Vitamin E and EGEC can inhibit cancer cell growth by up to 58%!

Resveratrol Pro works in the fight against cancer by helping to block both the COX and LOX pathways. COX and LOX are families of enzymes that catalyze fatty acid oxygenation to produce the eicosanoids. Eicosanoids are signalling molecules that exert complex control over many bodily systems, mainly in inflammation and immunity as well as acting as messengers in the central nervous system. By blocking their pathways, Resveratrol Pro helps to reduce inflammation and reduce the expressions of the genes Cyclin D1 and blc-2 (currently resistant to conventional cancer therapies). These are believed to be involved in cancers of the breast, prostate, lung and melanoma.

Life Extension

Perhaps the most remarkable attribute of Resveratrol lies in its potential to extend life. Most experts agree that adopting a severely restricted calorie diet prolongs life by perhaps one or even two decades and that the extra years gained are essentially healthy ones. Unfortunately, such diets would simply be too hard for most of us to stick to permanently. The exciting news is that research indicates that Resveratrol appears to be able to mimic the positive effects of severely restricted diets without the need for actually cutting down on food in such an extreme manner. Resveratrol, when combined with a healthy diet and a healthy lifestyle, may prove to be the real way forward when it comes to life extension.

Given all the above, Resveratrol Pro makes an important addition to anyone’s healthy living regime.