The Power of Resveratrol

Have you ever heard of the "French Paradox"? It is the observation that although the French eat a diet that has more saturated fat than we do they suffer less from heart disease. It is believed that the answer lies within a nutrient that is present in red wine, which the French drink on a daily basis, call Reveratrol.

There is an interesting article in DISCOVER Magazine about Resveratrol slowing the aging process. Here are the highlights:

Is Wine What Flows Through the Fountain of Youth?
GlaxoSmithKline bets $720 million that a new class of red wine-inspired drugs will slow aging in humans

The quest for eternal youth may be as old as human life itself, but the latest elixir to promise longer life—a molecule found in red wine—continues to surprise skeptics who can’t believe it could actually work. In the past five years, that compound, resveratrol, has been shown to slow aging in worms, flies, and mice.

One true believer is GlaxoSmithKline. Last spring the company paid $720 million for Sirtris, a biotech start-up that has developed a family of resveratrol-mimicking compounds. “GSK is betting that we have discovered a whole new class of drugs that will treat all or many diseases of aging at once,”

You too can benefit from the anti-aging properties of Resvertrol by taking Internal Affair each day.