Resveratrol: Can You Really Extend Your Life Span with this Antioxidant?

Can You Really Extend Your Life Span with this Antioxidant?
Dr. Mercola September 29 2009

In 2003, research showed that resveratrol, a powerful polyphenol and anti-fungal chemical, was able to increase the lifespan of yeast cells. The results ignited flames of hope for an anti-aging pill. According to the findings, resveratrol could activate a gene called sirtuin1, which is also activated during calorie restriction in various species.

Since then studies in nematode worms, fruit flies, fish, and mice have linked resveratrol to longer lives. Other studies with only resveratrol have reported anti-cancer effects, anti-inflammatory effects, cardiovascular benefits, anti-diabetes potential, energy endurance enhancement, and protection against Alzheimer’s. Resveratrol is found in grapes and red wine, and has particularly been associated with the so-called 'French Paradox' -- the low incidence of heart disease and obesity among the French, despite their relatively high-calorie diet and levels of wine consumption

If you want to stay healthy and extend your lifespan, eating right, exercising, optimizing your vitamin D levels and addressing emotional challenges at their root cause would be a great place to start.

But assuming you are already leading a healthy lifestyle, resveratrol, a potent antioxidant found in certain fruits, vegetables and cocoa, may be worth looking into.

Resveratrol is unique among antioxidants because it can cross the blood-brain barrier to help protect your brain and nervous system, and studies show that its benefits are wide reaching, including:
Protecting your cells from free radical damage
Inhibiting the spread of cancer, especially prostate cancer
Lowering your blood pressure
Keeping your heart healthy and improving elasticity in your blood vessels
Normalizing your anti-inflammatory response
Helping to prevent Alzheimer’s disease

Because resveratrol appears to be so effective at warding off many diseases associated with aging, it is often referred to as a “fountain of youth” that can extend lifespan.

Promising Studies Show Resveratrol’s Anti-Aging Effects
Animal studies have shown that resveratrol helped overweight mice run farther and live about 20 percent longer. It has even been found to increase the lifespan of human cells.
Further, in a study published in the journal Nature, scientists fed one group of mice a high-fat diet consisting of 60 percent fat calories. The mice developed signs of incipient diabetes, and began dying early deaths.

A second group of mice was fed an identical diet, but were also given large daily doses of resveratrol (the equivalent, for a human, of the amount that would be found in 750 to 1,500 bottles of red wine).

The mice did put on weight, but they avoided the enlarged livers and high blood glucose and insulin that signal diabetes. The resveratrol-fed mice also lived as long as mice on a healthy diet.
Aside from these benefits, a new study revealed that resveratrol stops inflammation with a one-two punch that prevents your body from creating two different molecules known to trigger inflammation -- sphingosine kinase and phospholipase D.

While inflammation is a natural response in your body (it’s a process in which your body’s white blood cells protect you from outside invaders such as bacteria and viruses), it’s possible for your body to exist in a chronically inflamed state.

Chronic inflammation is not a beneficial bodily response, and in fact has been linked to numerous chronic diseases including heart disease.

Further, Sirtris Pharmaceuticals has already developed a resveratrol pill that was used in a trial on people with untreated diabetes. The results? Lowered glucose and insulin levels without any changes in diet or taking other drugs.

Should You Take Resveratrol to Extend Your Lifespan?
It’s interesting to note that GlaxoSmithKline recently purchased Sirtris for nearly three quarters of a billion dollars.

Why? Because Sirtris is hard at work developing an anti-aging resveratrol pill, and if they’re able to develop a drug that could slow down all diseases, it would be an FDA-approvable blockbuster of unprecedented scope. I would venture to say that scientists are hard at work on this as we speak.

Resveratrol’s benefits do look promising. Resveratrol seems to produce many similar benefits as exercise, including lowering insulin levels, which is a key to fighting disease and staying young. I also believe it is the reason why calorie restriction works to extend lifespan.

But would I suggest replacing exercise with resveratrol? No way, though I do suspect it is a powerful addition to exercise, and I personally take resveratrol because of this belief.

If you are interested in trying out some resveratrol for yourself, there are numerous products already on the market. Be sure to look for one made from muscadine grapes that uses WHOLE grape skins and seeds, as this is where many of the benefits are concentrated.



**This article is shared [by me] from Dr. Mercola.com.
(The links to my website have been added by me to direct viewers and are not to be considered an official endorsement by Dr. Mercola.)

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Shaklee Corporation Recognized For Leading Green Power Purchases

Press Release
Shaklee Corporation Recognized For Leading Green Power Purchases - 09.14.09, 03:26 PM EDT

PLEASANTON, Calif. Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Shaklee Corporation announced today that it has received a 2009 Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The annual awards recognize the country's leading green power purchasers for their commitment and contribution to helping advance the development of the nation's voluntary green power market. EPA presented Shaklee Corporation with the award at an event held in conjunction with the 2009 Renewable Energy Markets Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Shaklee Corporation was one of only ten organizations nationwide to receive a Leadership Award for its green power purchase. The award recognizes EPA Green Power Partners who distinguish themselves through purchases of green power from a utility green-pricing program, a competitive green marketer, or a renewable energy certificate (REC) supplier. Shaklee Corporation is currently purchasing nearly 7 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually, which is enough green power to meet 108 percent of the organization's electricity use. Shaklee Corporation is buying renewable energy certificates (RECs) from Green Mountain Energy.

"We are very proud to receive this prestigious award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency," said Shaklee Chairman and CEO, Roger Barnett. "All companies have a choice about where they source their energy needs. Purchasing green power not only helps Shaklee become more sustainable, it also supports the generation of clean sources of electricity which can help reduce our nation's environmental footprint."

**Text from: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/prnewswire/2009/09/14/prnewswire200909141520PR_NEWS_USPR_____NY75330.html

BNI NOTABLE NETWORKER TROPHY CUP AWARD

Profit and Prosperity, LLC
2011 Oak St Suite #30
Wyandotte Michigan 48192
734-282-0493


BNI NOTABLE NETWORKER TROPHY CUP AWARD


What: Downriver business woman, and Healthier Living Advisor,
Linda Vorves Pastor, owner of Profit and Prosperity, LLC
(http://www.lindapastor.com/) and David Noel Babbage owner of
Babbage & Sons Premium Entertainment Systems
(davidbabbage.yahoo.com) won their BNI chapter’s Notable
Networker Award for the month of August 2009, and were
presented with a golden Trophy Cup.

The Trophy Cup and Award Certificates are given each month to
members who create outstanding results as givers within the BNI
network.


Where: The Downriver Chapter of BNI meets at Leon’s Restaurant
at 8787 Telegraph in Taylor, Mi.

When: Thursday mornings from 7:00 to 8:30 AM Who Belongs:
Business professionals looking to establish strong relationship to
promote their business and services through Word-of-Mouth
marketing.

For more information on the networking group, visit:
http://www.bnidownriver.com/

** RSVP required 1-734-282-0493

August Notable Networker for Downriver BNI [Business Network International]

This is quite an honor.

David Babbage of Babbage and Sons Premium Entertainment Systems and I were the Notable Networkers for August. We passed the most referrals within the group and won this golden trophy cup. I will have it to display for the first 2 weeks and David the last two weeks of September.

Looking for a fun, and yet structured networking group? Got a business that needs word of mouth referrals? Join us. Our Downriver BNI Chapter meets at Leon's Restaurant on Thursday mornings at 7am. at 8787 Telegraph, in Taylor.

We have aproximately 24 businesses represented and are looking for a photographer and a florist and several other classification are open.

Call Linda @ 734-282-0493 to reserve your seat for the next breakfast meeting.