| In the 2003 Journal of Nature, Howitz and Sinclair | | | | normal levels in contrast to those who were just on |
| published a report that concluded that Resveratrol | | | | a high fat diet. Those mice had glucose and insulin |
| had significantly extended the life span of three | | | | levels near fatality. This same study also found that |
| tested organisms: the Saccharomyces cerevisiae | | | | when elderly mice switched from a high-fat diet to a |
| yeast, Caenohabditis elegans worm, and the Drosphila | | | | high-fat diet with Resveratrol, their life generally |
| melanogaster (fruit fly). | | | | improved, but it wasn't as beneficial as it could be if |
| In 2006, this same study was successful carried out | | | | they had been started on the Resveratrol earlier. |
| on a vertebrate, the Nothobranchius furzeri, a fish | | | | This is why many experts suggest that the Asian |
| that was known throughout the science community | | | | communities of Okinawa and Sadinia (who have the |
| as having a short-life span of approximately nine | | | | greatest population of active centenarians in the |
| weeks; when compared with the controlled group of | | | | world) are able to maintain their well-being. Both |
| fishes, the fish that received the supplemented | | | | these people consume large amounts of Resveratrol. |
| Resveratrol had demonstrated an improved learning | | | | Statistics have shown that the elderly within these |
| intelligence and higher physical activity. By being | | | | communities continue in their regular labors well into |
| administered a maximum dose of Resveratrol, its life | | | | their nineties, while the western centenarians are few |
| span extended by nearly 56%. The Italian scientists | | | | and died painfully because of diseases like cancer. In |
| that conducted these study trials noted an increase in | | | | Okinawa and Sardina, cancer is almost unheard of. |
| the younger fishes' morality, and that by decreasing | | | | However, no human testing of Resveratrol has been |
| the toxics that triggered the fishes' defense | | | | completed, but the pharmaceutical giant; Galxo Smith |
| mechanisms, they could achieve a life extension. | | | | Kline (the producers of Xenical and Alli) purchased the |
| Another advantage that Resveratrol has is that it can | | | | Resveratrol patent and are currently developing the |
| counteract the detrimental effects of a high fat diet. | | | | most effective treatment regime for this product. As |
| In a study done in 2006 by Howitz and Sinclair, it was | | | | of the time of this article, the FDA has not approved |
| reported that mice who got hydrogenated coconut | | | | the Resveratrol antioxidant as a longevity product in |
| oil added to their regular diet (thus increasing the | | | | the US. |
| energy from fat to 60%) but had Resveratrol, could | | | | However, because Resveratrol is proving to provide |
| ingest about 30% more calories than those mice that | | | | qualities that can: 1) Enhance human life spans, 2) |
| just had the high-fat diet without the resverstrol. | | | | Decrease fat in individuals who are overweight, and |
| The results of that study showed that the mice that | | | | 3) Help those who suffer from high insulin and/or high |
| were fed with a high-fat diet but had Resveratrol | | | | glucose level - it won't be long before Resveratrol |
| had a lower risk of death than the mice that fed | | | | and all its extracts will become commonplace in the |
| from a high-fat diet without Resveratrol. Both the | | | | USA. |
| insulin and glucose levels on the mice with a high-fat | | | | Please feel free to visit our website for more |
| and Resveratrol diet were shown to be closer to | | | | information. |